Trump eyes 100% tariffs on cars made in Mexico

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : I want them to build their plants here," Trump declared during a speech in Savannah, Georgia.
57% : Many automakers now build smaller, lower-priced vehicles in Mexico -- facilitated by a trade agreement Trump negotiated while president -- or in other countries because their profit margins are slim.
53% : "And Trump suggested wiping away some environmental regulations to boost energy production, saying America has "got the oil, it's got the gas.
51% : Trump added that, if elected, he'd put a 100% tariff on every car coming into the U.S. from Mexico and that the only way to avoid those charges would be for an automaker to build the cars in the U.S.His ideas, if enacted, could cause a huge upheaval in the American auto industry.
50% : "We're putting America first," Trump said.
45% : Trump proposes a "new American industrialism" -- without key specificsTrump has sought to press presidential rival Kamala Harris on the economy and has proposed using tariffs on imports and other measures to boost American industry -- even as economists have cautioned that U.S. consumers would bear the costs of tariffs and other Trump proposals like staging the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
45% : It was 35% when Trump became president in 2017, and he later signed legislation lowering it.

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