Trump Proposes 200% Tariff on Vehicle Imports from Mexico

Republican candidate Donald Trump suggested Sunday that he might impose tariffs higher than 200% on vehicles imported from Mexico, saying his goal would be to prevent cars from being exported to the United States.

“All I’m doing is saying,” he said in an interview with Fox News Sunday. “I’m going to put 200 or 500, I don’t care. I’m going to put a number so they can’t sell a single car. I don’t want them to hurt our auto companies.”

Trump, who is facing Democrat Kamala Harris in a close race, has previously pledged that if he is reelected as president, he would impose a 100% tariff on imported cars and trucks to help the domestic auto industry.

Speaking at a rally last week in Juneau, Wisconsin, Trump doubled the number.

He said during the Fox News interview, “When I use 200, I use it as a number, I don’t want their cars, they won’t be able to sell cars, I won’t let them build a factory across the border and sell millions of cars to the United States and destroy Detroit even more.”