Trump continues to admonish H-D
Now says he is helping foreign motorcycle manufacturers move to the USDonald Trump’s again taken to Twitter to throw a brickbat at Harley-Davidson, which recently announced that it was moving some of its operations outside its home country as the tariff war between the US and the European Union intensifies.
This time, Trump said that his government was helping some of the company’s foreign competitors to move production to the United States.
Trump also said that Harley-Davidson's sales were down seven per cent last year and that "Harley customers are not happy with their move”.
Trump did not specify the foreign companies that it’s willing to help get a foothold in America, but as some media commentarial have since pointed out many of them are based in countries in which Trump doesn’t mind throwing trade barbs at – or has levied increased tariffs on. Japan and Germany are cases-in-point.
Harley-Davidson has not yet specified where it will move some of its US operations. The company has been assembling some motorcycles outside the United States for more than 20 years, but it builds the motorcycles it sells in the United States inside the United States.
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