Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs
asia.nikkei.com
asia.nikkei.com
What this is saying is they will stop co-mingling parts from their Japan, Thailand, China, and India suppliers, and stick to using their NAM suppliers.
Wouldn’t they just keep making them in the US ?
Downvotes are now a measure of emotion more than anything else. Validity isn’t a consideration.
The current admin has made no secret that they don't believe in democracy and want to have a strong man king rule instead. This is well-documented.
$ grep -i democra us_constitution.txt
$ grep -i republic us_constitution.txt
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.> United States is a Constitutional Republic. Not a democracy according to the US constitution.
Your statement is not a refutation of what you replied to.
Here's an interview with Thiel and Vance's guru on "democracy": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-in... -- the word democracy is used there as it is by most who use it in the context of the US (including myself).
And the person they picked for this is a charismatic narcissist who clearly only cares about himself? The examples of previous "dictators" all clearly believed that what they were doing was for the benefit of the country as a whole.
Those opposed to Trump holding office don't do so because he's in the "wrong party", they oppose him because he is eminently unsuitable for the job. Note that even hard core conservative members of his party advocated for voting for his opponent. That's a first, and there's a reason why.
Note as well that he's making noise about ignoring a constitutional amendment that would prohibit him from the office after this term.
In any event, both of those things are typically undemocratic which is why they are rare in functioning democracies and common in autocracies. No system is invulnerable to attack so in certain circumstances they aren't undemocratic. Excluding candidates for, say, a criminal record, mental incapacity, or foreign obligations is less democratic but no reasonable person would claim it voids the will of the people.
What sucks more is having a two-party system -- the game is pretty well rigged by that. Voters have the choice of the lesser of two evils. But at least there's a choice involved.
So, comrade, you have failed to sway me. I don't put party before country, even if I was a party member. I doubt you can say the same.
I don't know why they might be illegal. Legal and illegal things are on a spectrum. Some things are illegal in a fairly convoluted way, so convoluted that various judges can reach different conclusions. But some things are quite black and white and confiscation of private property is one of those. The 14th Amendment is quite clear on that.
Cuba did this as part of the revolution. The nationalization of American owned businesses was a major contributor to later hostilities. We don't have an embargo on Russia, yet we still maintain the trade embargo on Cuba.
What type of sanctions would it fear?
What's stopping the current admin from saying "we don't like you, you gotta sell", now that's another question! Currently the main answer is "your willingness to pay bribes".
Given:
* how long it would take to set up new manufacturing
* how volatile constant changes are with boundless, randomized tariffs
(it's only been 3 months, y'all)
* how recent this newest set of tariffs are
Nikkei is Japan's Financial Times (they own that too) or Wall Street Journal, so they have a strong relationship with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, ASEAN, and Indian businesses and policymakers.
Nikkei is easily the best source of English language business news in APAC.
There also wasn't any reference to "coffee shops" in the article either.
Or is this one of a, "99% constructed in Japan, but we attached the wiper blades in the USA" kind of manufacturing move?
CDKs would still be hit by the 25% auto tariff (unrelated to the country level tariffs).
It's already been manufactured in Tennessee since 2023, so what's most likely happening is Nissan will stop shipping parts from Japan and rely solely on their NAM supply chain.
> Is that actually feasible or just marketing copy
Most likely depends on scale. Most firms at Nissan size began building redundancy plans during COVID due to supply chain instability.
Regulators don't take kindly to those kinds of shenanigans.
Ford had to pay $365M in fines [0] for that stunt (which is around 6% of their yearly net income - painful in a low margins industry like car manufacturing).
Volkswagen tried something similar in India as well and now needs to pay $2.5-3 Billion (17% of their year net income) as a result.
[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-p...
TIL Nissan considers the Rogue their flagship model and they still make vehicles in Japan.
2 people (one claims he voted for Trump in 2016)
> attack American teslas
Also a small number of people who have actually “attacked” Teslas