Executives with General Motors (GM) are working hard to curry favor with President Donald Trump’s administration, even as some of the automaker’s initiatives — including trying to preserve Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates and subsidies — do not align with the president’s agenda.
When Trump first announced tariffs on imported cars to the United States market, GM CEO Mary Barra jumped to seemingly support the tariffs despite the automaker importing millions of foreign-made cars every few years.
“The Detroit stalwart imported more cars into the U.S. last year than any other automaker, even Japan’s Toyota,” Bloomberg UK reported last month:
Nearly half of the vehicles GM sold in the U.S. last year — 1.23 million autos — were built abroad, according to researcher GlobalData.
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