security merica claims the likes of german car makers the damage in the u.s. economy german cars remain popular in the united states that s 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 while the number of workers an 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 in part 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 than companies like albion porsche. last year almost half