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Because Germany has protectionist tariffs similar to those Trump wants to implement. E.g it is not cheaper to outsource plants to Mexico and import BMW back to Germany.

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Eastern European states fill that role in the EU, though I'm not sure how great the scale of that is.

Exactly - the scale is different. And where they can, jobs have already migrated from Germany

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