President Donald Trump will announce tariffs on the automobile industry at a press conference later on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.
“All of this good is happening for our country,” Leavitt told reporters at the March 26 press briefing. “This administration is working hard on behalf of the American public every day.”
The president has also recently mentioned levies on lumber, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor imports.
“We are going to be doing automobiles, which you’ve known about for a long time,” Trump told reporters at the White House on March 24. “We’ll be announcing that fairly soon, over the next few days probably. And then April 2 comes. That will be reciprocal tariffs.”...