a thorn in the side of u.s. president donald trump who maintains that foreign imports have eroded the domestic car industry over the past two decades car imports have risen by fifty percent well the number of workers in american car plants has been falling german factories in the u.s. have added thousands of new hires german automakers account for one in six jobs in the u.s. car industry but now donald trump is reportedly mulling a plan to impose impart tariffs of up to twenty five percent on the. european carmakers at present pay about a tenth of. carmakers like mercedes b.m.w. and fox lagan which manufacture in the u.s. would be less badly hit then companies like algae and porsche. last year almost half a million german cars where exported to the u.s. not only german car associations but also do you are concerned about transplants if