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Trump’s new 25% truck tariff targets imports from Mexico, Canada, and Germany

by admin October 7, 2025
October 7, 2025
Trump’s new 25% truck tariff targets imports from Mexico, Canada, and Germany

In a significant and surprising escalation of his protectionist trade agenda, President Donald Trump has announced that all medium- and heavy-duty trucks imported into the United States will be hit with a crushing 25 percent tariff starting November 1.

The move, which the president says is necessary to protect American companies from “unfair outside competition,” opens a new and volatile front in his global trade war and is set to directly impact some of America’s closest allies.

The announcement, which Trump made on his social media platform, was a stark and sudden declaration.

“Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25 per cent,” Trump posted, providing no further details.

A low to ‘close partners,’ a boost for domestic giants

The new tariff is a direct blow to a host of foreign manufacturers and exporters, a list that is ironically dominated by America’s allies and closest trading partners.

The top five sources of imported trucks to the United States are Mexico, Canada, Japan, Germany, and Finland.

The US Chamber of Commerce had previously and publicly urged the administration not to impose the new duties, noting that these nations are “allies or close partners of the United States posing no threat to US national security.”

But for the White House, this is a matter of domestic economic defense.

The president has argued the new duties are necessary to restore fairness and will directly benefit American manufacturing giants like the Paccar-owned Peterbilt and Kenworth, as well as Daimler Truck’s Freightliner.

“These tariffs are necessary to restore fairness and protect our workers,” Trump said.

We cannot continue allowing our industries to be undermined by foreign dumping and unfair practices.

A free-trade zone under fire

The new tariff is particularly disruptive for the highly integrated North American auto industry.

Mexico, the single largest exporter of these vehicles to the US, has seen its shipments triple since 2019 to around 340,000 units a year.

Under the North American free trade deal, these trucks have moved tariff-free as long as they meet certain regional content requirements.

The new 25 percent levy threatens to upend that arrangement, directly impacting major automakers who have built their supply chains around the free-trade zone.

The Chrysler-parent company Stellantis, which produces its heavy-duty Ram trucks and commercial vans in Mexico, has reportedly been lobbying the White House to avoid the steep tariffs.

Meanwhile, Sweden’s Volvo Group is in the process of building a massive 700 million dollar heavy-truck factory in Monterrey, Mexico, a major investment that is now directly in the line of fire.

While India, which has been the target of Trump’s tariff wrath in other sectors, will be spared this time as it does not export trucks to the US, the new move is a powerful and unsettling signal.

The trade war, it seems, is far from over; it is simply finding new fronts to fight on.

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