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Title: Harley-Davidson Will Shift Manufacturing Overseas To Avoid Tariffs
Source: Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/25/ ... idson-will-shift-manufacturing
Published: Jan 25, 2018
Author: Eric Boehm
Post Date: 2018-06-25 12:43:00 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 773
Comments: 4

It can do that because it's a global brand, but other businesses aren't as lucky. And workers everywhere stand to lose.

David Bro/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle brand, will shift some manufacturing overseas in response to the raising of trade barriers on both sides of the Atlantic.

In a filing made Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson disclosed plans to move some of its manufacturing facilities from the Rust Belt to the Old World in the hopes of avoiding higher costs created by new European Union tariffs that target American-made motorcycles, along with other cultural products like whiskey and blue jeans. Those 25 percent tariffs were imposed last week by E.U. officials in response to the Trump administration's decision to place tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Europe.

The tariffs will increase the cost of a motorcycle exported from the U.S. to the E.U. by about $2,200 per bike, and would cost Harley-Davidson between $90 and $100 million per year, the company told the SEC.

Passing along that cost to consumers would have "an immediate and lasting detrimental impact" to Harley-Davidson's sales in Europe. Shifting manufacturing to the E.U. will allow the motorbike maker to avoid that hit—although it will take 9 to 18 months to ramp-up international plants, Harley-Davison says, and in the meantime the company is expecting to lose $30 million to $45 million during the transition.

It remains to be seen whether Harley-Davidson's decision to shift some manufacturing operations overseas will force layoffs at its American plants in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Still, it's worth noting that the company has scaled back its American production lines in recent years in favor of opening a new plant in India, where motorbikes are highly sought, to get around a massive import tariff imposed there. Harley-Davidson has plans to open another facility in Thailand for the same reason.

All of which should be taken as pretty solid evidence that raising barriers to trade will ultimately harm American workers. A business like Harley-Davidson gets hit at both ends, as American tariffs on steel and aluminum imports drive up the cost of raw materials used to build motorcycles and retaliatory EU tariffs make it more difficult to sell their products. To hear President Donald Trump explain it, tariffs should force foreign manufacturers to "build them here," but Harley-Davidson's announcement shows how a trade war will give American businesses a strong incentive to relocate elsewhere.

Of course, Harley-Davidson has the ability to relocate some of it's manufacturing overseas because it's a global brand that sold more than 40,000 motorcycles to European consumers last year. Other firms don't have that choice and won't generate front-page headlines about the pain caused by Trump's trade war.

Few people are talking about businesses like Mid Continent Nail Corporation in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, which announced last week that it would have to lay off 200 workers—about 40 percent of its workforce—before Labor Day due to increased steel prices created by Trump's tariffs. The 25 percent tariff on imported steel makes it impossible for the company to compete with cheaper nails produced in places like China, a company spokeswoman told MissouriNet.com.

The same is true for the 1,500 jobs at three Arkansas-based tire cord manufacturing plants. All three say they will be forced to close their plants unless they can get relief from the Trump administration's steel tariffs.

Those jobs won't be moving overseas. They'll just vanish.

Whether looking at motorcycles, nails, tires, or any of the other steel-consuming industries that employ more than 6.5 million Americans, the story is largely the same. Trump's trade war is hiking production costs and closing off potential export markets. Tariffs aren't saving steel towns, but they are causing serious pain for American manufacturers—the very set of industries that Trump supposedly is trying to help.

"Increasing international production to alleviate the E.U. tariff burden is not the company's preference," Harley-Davidson told the SEC in Monday's filing, "but represents the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe." (1 image)

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

It remains to be seen whether Harley-Davidson's decision to shift some manufacturing operations overseas will force layoffs at its American plants

That's OK. I'm sure those layoffs will be offset by European steel and aluminum manufacturers shifting their operations to the U.S. to avoid our tariffs.

misterwhite  posted on  2018-06-25   13:05:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Deckard (#0)

Screw Harleys, they had a brief period of time where they concentrated on American people with an American product. Now they build mediocre machines milking the legend.

THIS IS A TAG LINE...Exercising rights is only radical to two people, Tyrants and Slaves. Which are YOU? Our ignorance has driven us into slavery and we do not recognize it.

jeremiad  posted on  2018-06-25   17:10:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Deckard (#0)

All of which should be taken as pretty solid evidence that raising barriers to trade will ultimately harm American workers. A business like Harley-Davidson gets hit at both ends, as American tariffs on steel and aluminum imports drive up the cost of raw materials used to build motorcycles and retaliatory EU tariffs make it more difficult to sell their products. To hear President Donald Trump explain it, tariffs should force foreign manufacturers to "build them here," but Harley-Davidson's announcement shows how a trade war will give American businesses a strong incentive to relocate elsewhere.

Mid Continent Nail Corporation in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, which announced last week that it would have to lay off 200 workers—about 40 percent of its workforce—before Labor Day due to increased steel prices created by Trump's tariffs.

The same is true for the 1,500 jobs at three Arkansas-based tire cord manufacturing plants. All three say they will be forced to close their plants unless they can get relief from the Trump administration's steel tariffs.

Sadly, this will only be the beginning...

Nice job dipshit donnie......

Jameson  posted on  2018-06-26   11:46:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Deckard (#0)

You have to crack some eggs to make an omelet.

HD caved and will get what they deserve.

If you want fair trade it will take some realigning of companies. Remember big global socialist corporations have been screwing the middle class for many decades.

BTW people buy HD because they are HD's. You piss off the people that buy them you will not be able to give them away. Stand and fight for America first or die like you should.

Justified  posted on  2018-06-26   12:39:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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