Nissan and Subaru may be closing US plants and moving back to Japan

[Kablooie]

Last edited Tue Apr 29, 2025, 11:51 AM - Edit history (1)

A loss of 40,000 jobs.
Just to be clear, this was from online chatting, not official news sources so I don’t know how reliable it is.

But it got me thinking., with the chaos and higher prices for so many supplies and materials, could it be cheaper for companies to produce their products outside the US, where prices are stable and reasonable, and then import the finished product and pay only one final tariff?

If so, there could be that big sucking sound again with more manufacturing jobs than ever disappearing.

[marble falls]

1. So much winning! Time to bring him down. If Congress won't, we have to.

[Oopsie Daisy]

8. Third time's the charm.

[Demovictory9]

2. oh thats harsh

[Straw Man]

3. "The Art of the Deal"?

Oh Donald ...

As a friend of mine is fond of saying, "In his defense, he's a very stupid man."

[unblock]

4. Some of the cars they build in America are sold in Canada.

They can't avoid the tariffs for the cars they sell in America, but they can avoid them for the ones they sell in Canada simply by cutting out America. Produce the cars in Japan and ship them to Vancouver, avoiding the u.s. entirely.

I know it comes as a shock to all of us, but broad-based tariffs are stupid.

[moniss]

6. Yes and they also avoid mulitple tariffs

on components and sub-assemblies moving back and forth across borders. It becomes an accounting nightmare trying to keep track of it all with thousands of shipments every day. Let alone trying to keep track of the constantly changing tariff levels.

[Permanut]

5. I had a 1992 Nissan pickup..

assembled in Tennessee. Great little truck.

[MineralMan]

18. I had a 1974 Datsun Pickup.

Over the years, I have owned several small Japanese-made pickup trucks. All did their job in an excellent way.

I mourn the passing of small imported pickup trucks.

[DFW]

7. As long as there is a domestic market where the cars are built, there is an advantage, but the devil is in the details

If you have a factory in the USA, and American employees (remember--the dollar has lost over 10% against the Euro in just two months!), you have an edge up as far as tariffs go, EXCEPT if many of the parts are still made overseas and need to be imported. If a Nissan is assembled in the USA, but the chassis, the motor, and the electronics are still made outside of the USA, they will be subject to tariffs regardless. Besides, if any of those cars are designated for sale beyond the borders of the USA (as in Canada or Mexico), they will be subject to the same punitive tariffs that we just put on their products.

In a humorous study on diplomats in 1960, Peter Ustinov once characterized the British "no" vote as their diplomat saying something like, "before we send a gunboat, we should pause and ask ourselves whether our enemy has not a gunboat, too--in fact the one we sold him."

[BidenRocks]

9. Are those Union jobs?

If not, they likely are right to work chump voters.
How's that workin' out?

[Bristlecone]

10. Per the local news in Indianapolis, they are not closing, but retooling

Link attached:

https://www.wthr.com/article/money/business/no-subaru-is-not-leaving-lafayette-indiana-cars-tariffs-forester-outback-legacy-abatement-investment-hybrid-suv-production-rumor-viral/531-0895093b-77ff-496c-9a0e-a5b2d5bfd74c

[tanyev]

11. Donald J. Trump, the J stands for "JFC, that man's a moron!"

[Homoudont]

12. Nissan Canton MS

Nissan has been struggling for a while now and they've been cutting shifts and jobs in Canton MS for some time. I think the downfall of both Nissan and Subaru have more to do with their product then anything else.

Without getting into too much technical depth the nissan and subaru CVT's (transmission) are garbage. Some of them barely lasting 100k miles. Both manufactures went the cheaper route. Toyota and Honda CVT's are solid transmissions and one of the differences in at least the Toyota is they they have a 1st gear before it moves over to the CVT. Starting off for the CVT's is pretty hard on the trans so having a first gear alleviates this and why Toyota CVT are far superior.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Nissan is going bankrupt.

If they're actually leaving, it has way more to do with that. Not seeing anything other than social media claims that Subaru is closing up shop, either.

[spanone]

14. Great job to the asshole in chief.

[democratsruletheday]

16. Again.....

this is what he and his minions want.....an upper class and a lower class: that's IT. No two ways about it. Looking to implode the country.

[bif]

15. They're retooling. See above.

Maybe you should either revise your headline or self delete.

[BoRaGard]

17. "Blame us. We did it. Sorry not sorry." - G.O.P.