US government wants to limit imports and encourage local production
- Over the months, the core of US governmental policy is emerging: it follows the principles of local employment and priority to the domestic US auto industry. Today, the government's actions are therefore based on the objective of producing more cars in the United States and limiting imports from Asia (Japan, Korea in particular) and Europe (mainly Germany), but also from their historical partners of the NAFTA zone (Canada, Mexico).
- In 2017, the US produced 11.3 million vehicles on their territory, while the US market accounted for 17.3 million units of which 8.3 million were imported and 9 million produced on site.
- The goal of the US government is to transfer some of the 8.3 million imported vehicles to production on US soil. In 2017, the countries that exported the most vehicles to the US were Mexico (2.4 million units), Canada (1.8 million units), Japan (1.7 million units), South Korea (0.9 million units) and Germany (0.6 million units). For Mexico and Canada, it is mostly GM, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler, while for Japan it is most of the Japanese brands and for Korea the Hyundai-Kia group. The problem is that most factories operating in the US are currently operating at the limit of their capabilities. So current US plants should be expanded or new plants built to produce 2 or 3 million additional vehicles.
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