Author Topic: Tariffs Imperil a Hometown Business in South Carolina: BMW  (Read 647 times)

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The automaker became the No. 1 exporter of American-made cars, transforming Spartanburg. Now it is weighing the impact of an escalation of the trade fight....

....the Spartanburg plant is BMW’s biggest in the world. It has helped draw more than 200 companies from two dozen countries to Spartanburg County. And the German company — not an American icon like Ford or General Motors — is now the largest exporter of cars made in the United States, turning the port of Charleston, S.C., into a hub for global trade.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/economy/tariffs-south-carolina-bmw.html