American automakers, by and large, build abroad what they sell abroad. Japanese and Korean automakers have made, IMO, reasonable and substantial efforts to build here what they sell here. But the E.U. automakers largely have not. BMW builds a few SUV models here, and Volkswagen has a plant in Chattanooga. But I don't think a single BMW automobile, or Audi of any kind, is built here, and Volkswagen builds in North America mostly in Mexico.
If it takes tariffs for E.U. automakers to build here what they sell here, then so be it. What's good for Harley Davidson is good for Mercedes and Volkswagen. And there's a lot more jobs at stake building those vehicles here than in Harley building hawgs in Europe, which are largely novelties overseas.
