Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US

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Hmm

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President Donald Trump is hoping to block German luxury carmakers from the U.S. market, according to an exclusive report by German magazine WirtschaftsWoche.

Citing several unnamed U.S. and European diplomats, the weekly business magazine reported that Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron last month he would maintain his trade policy with the aim of stopping Mercedes-Benz models from driving down Fifth Avenue in New York. The report didn't give any further details on what policies would be used to effectively ban the premium carmakers.

The report comes less than two weeks after the U.S. Department of Commerce launched an investigation into automobile imports to determine whether they "threaten to impair the national security" of the U.S. That could lead to tariffs of up to 25 percent on the same "national security" grounds used to impose metal imports charges in March.

That could be bad. Mercedes provides a lot of jobs in this country and they have a large manufacturing plant in Vance that provides Alabama a lot of jobs.

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The operative word.....reportedly... from Germany where they wish to h***  that he could do this....they've been watching lots of their good car jobs coming to the US and not happy about it. 

Imports or exports.....the BMW plant locally supplies the world wide market of some models from South Carolina...so do we tax them coming  or going?  ..none of which makes much sense of course.