Ford’s China-built Focus Active crossover vehicle, will not be arriving in the United States. Recent tariffs imposed on Chinese imports by the Trump administration – and those expected to be levied on imported vehicles – would have trimmed profits on an already low-margin vehicle.
“Given the negative financial impact of the new tariffs, we’ve decided not to import this vehicle from China,” Kumar Galhotra, Ford president of North America, said Friday. “The significant thing that moved was the tariffs going up substantially higher. We’re choosing to deploy resources elsewhere.”
Read the article at The Detroit News.
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