Harley-Davidson shifts some production overseas as EU tariff of $2,200 per bike kicks

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They are dead money anyway.

Young people don't want them.
 
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I'm amazed at how many Hardly Dangerous units they sell in Europe every year: 40,000. That's probably better than any other automobile exports out of the United States. Why would someone in Holland or Italy want to own a Chevy?
 
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Harley Davidson has been farming out parts Globally for a long time.

Why is this news?
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Because lefties have to whine about something.
They all think you can pick up a factory and move in a week,
for them to realize it can take years, is just too difficult for their tiny little brains.

Curious Cdn said:
I'm amazed at how many Hardly Dangerous units they sell in Europe every year: 40,000. That's probably better than any other automobile exports out of the United States. Why would someone in Holland or Italy want to own a Chevy?
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HD is still popular with people who have money.
Millenials are poor, will always be poor, so that is why HD can't sell the big bikes,
and now making a 750 and 500 for the 3rd world, where they will still make money.


As far as Chevy goes, EU rules punish any US automaker so severely,
customers never get a choice if they 'want' a Chevy or not.
 
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justlooking said:
Because lefties have to whine about something.
They all think you can pick up a factory and move in a week,
for them to realize it can take years, is just too difficult for their tiny little brains.
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Trump has that problem, too. Shut down Canadian imports of aluminum and steel and, presto! Aluminum and steel mills pop up in the US to take up the slack! It'll take years for that production to set up shop in the USA. Obsolete mills that were idled years ago won't cut it. In the meantime, those tariffs are just a naked tax grab from the wallets of American consumers.

justlooking said:
Because lefties have to whine about something.
They all think you can pick up a factory and move in a week,
for them to realize it can take years, is just too difficult for their tiny little brains.




HD is still popular with people who have money.
Millenials are poor, will always be poor, so that is why HD can't sell the big bikes,
and now making a 750 and 500 for the 3rd world, where they will still make money.


As far as Chevy goes, EU rules punish any US automaker so severely,
customers never get a choice if they 'want' a Chevy or not.
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Nobody in Europe would buy that crap. They make better cars, there.
 
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Nobody in Europe would buy that crap. They make better cars, there.
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And much more expensive, too.
The attraction of US cars is they are cheap.
But the EU puts on so many tariffs, any US car in Europe costs more than the equivalent
Euro model.


Not very fair trade of them.
 
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justlooking said:
And much more expensive, too.
The attraction of US cars is they are cheap.
But the EU puts on so many tariffs, any US car in Europe costs more than the equivalent
Euro model.


Not very fair trade of them.
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Hence Trump’s tariff threat.
 
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China's tariffs on US soybeans might benefit Canada. I buy much tofu and soy milk, so I hope this will push North American prices down. Thanks, China.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDKRaGQPlc

US home buyers should thank Trump for this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBgzj1hflqk
 
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Curious Cdn said:
Trump has that problem, too. Shut down Canadian imports of aluminum and steel and, presto! Aluminum and steel mills pop up in the US to take up the slack! It'll take years for that production to set up shop in the USA. Obsolete mills that were idled years ago won't cut it. In the meantime, those tariffs are just a naked tax grab from the wallets of American consumers.



Nobody in Europe would buy that crap. They make better cars, there.
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Better bikes, too. Comparing a Harley to a BMW, for example, is like comparing a 1938 Oldsmobile to a 2018 BMW.
 
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justlooking said:
And much more expensive, too.
The attraction of US cars is they are cheap.
But the EU puts on so many tariffs, any US car in Europe costs more than the equivalent
Euro model.


Not very fair trade of them.
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European cars are much more expensive, partly anyway, because of import tariffs into North America. Quality is the other part.

Try hard to "get" it.

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Better bikes, too. Comparing a Harley to a BMW, for example, is like comparing a 1938 Oldsmobile to a 2018 BMW.
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... or a Ducati ...
 
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Iconic American brand is chased out of America by taxation and the white nationalist climate change deniers are happy.


less jobs is good.
 
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Trying to make political hay with old news

Harley-Davidson took its tax cut, closed a factory, and rewarded shareholders

On September 2017, House Speaker Paul Ryan traveled to a Harley-Davidson plant in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, to tout the Republican tax bill, which President Trump would sign later that year. “Tax reform can put American manufacturers and American companies like Harley-Davidson on a much better footing to compete in the global economy and keep jobs here in America,” Ryan told workers and company leaders. Four months later and 500 miles away in Kansas City, Missouri, 800 workers at a Harley-Davidson factory were told they would lose their jobs when the plant closed its doors and shifted operations to a facility in York, Pennsylvania — a net loss of 350 jobs. Workers and union representatives say they didn’t see it coming.
 
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