新闻来源：www.abcnews.go.com
原文地址：Trump pledges tariffs and repeats false claim of Chinese automakers building big Mexican factories
新闻日期：2024-09-18
特朗普周二再次重复错误的说法，称中国汽车制造商正在墨西哥建立大型工厂，并在访问汽车制造业大州密歇根时承诺，对来自未建成工厂的中国车辆征收200%的关税。
他还在弗林特市的一次活动中表示，如果民主党副总统哈里斯在11月选举中当选，美国的汽车产业将会消失，因为生产电动汽车的工作将移交给中国。
根据劳工统计局的数据，在特朗普离任时（2021年1月），汽车行业的就业人数减少了0.8%，降至94.9万人左右。自拜登总统同年1月上台以来，该行业的就业岗位增长了13.6%，到2022年8月达到约107万人。这反驳了特朗普关于汽车行业将会消失的说法。
他称他的关税措施将使中国生产的汽车在美国市场难以销售，从而迫使来自中国和其他国家的汽车制造商在美国建厂。
原文摘要：
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated false claims that Chinese automakers are putting up large factories in Mexico, vowing during a stop in the automaking state of Michigan to slap 200% tariffs on any vehicles the unbuilt plants make and ship to the United States.
Trump also claimed during an event in Flint that if Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris is elected in November, there will be no more auto industry in the U.S., because work building electric vehicles will go to China.
That statement came even though automaking employment has grown since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, after dropping during Trump’s first term.
“If I don’t win, you will have no auto industry within two to three years,” Trump said, calling any increases under Biden and Harris temporary. “You will not have any manufacturing plants. China is going to take over all of them because of the electric car.”
He told the crowd he would make foreign automakers build factories in the U.S. by imposing tariffs on imported autos, saying it “will be like taking candy from a baby.”
Foreign automakers already have multiple U.S. factories, mainly in southern states.
Auto jobs dipped 0.8% during Trump’s term to just over 949,000 in January 2021, when he left office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since Biden took office that month, auto and parts jobs rose 13.6% to 1.07 million in August, so there’s no evidence of the industry disappearing. Auto sales were up 2.4% in the first half of this year.
Trump said his tariffs would make Chinese vehicles built in Mexico unsellable in the U.S., forcing automakers from China and elsewhere to set up factories in the U.S.
“They’re owned and built by China in Mexico, and there are a number of them going up right now,” Trump said of Chinese factories.
Although some Chinese automakers aspire to sell in the U.S., industry analysts say there are no large Chinese-owned auto factories under construction in Mexico, and there’s only one small Chinese auto assembly factory operating there. It’s run by a company called JAC that builds inexpensive vehicles from kits for sale in that country.
Trump also promised to charge tariffs on vehicles made in other countries if those countries tax U.S.-made vehicles. But often tariffs end up being passed on to consumers in the country that assesses them.
The Harris campaign issued a statement from Michigan Sen. Gary Peters saying that a second Trump term would crush auto jobs, “ceding Michigan’s global auto manufacturing leadership to the Chinese government.” He said Harris has a plan to bring good-paying manufacturing jobs home “and ensure Michigan workers continue to lead the world in auto manufacturing.”
