Products manufactured under the United States Mexico Canada trade agreement exempted from new United States tariffs.

Mexico may have avoided further tariffs from the U.S, however its auto industry has still been affected. (AP/ Christian Torres, Fernanda Pesce, Martín Silva Rey and Alexis Triboulard) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.

Nissan Motor Co. decided to stop selling a pair of Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs in the US market, in response to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on car imports.

The first layoffs are already here, but a unified strategy remains elusive as automakers aren’t all in the same boat.

The president claims the measures will help autoworkers. But experts say that’s far from certain—and that they could tank the industry instead.

The tariffs are an expansion of those Trump signed in 2018, when a 25 percent steel duty and a 10 percent aluminum levy went into effect. Over time, the first Trump administration and the Biden administration issued exemptions for a large number of U.S. trading partners. Those no longer apply.

Car dealers in the Philadelphia area say the prices of cars and repairs could go up with the Trump administration's tariffs.