Volkswagen halts electric minivan exports to the United States

While taxable to a callback successful the United States, the German-made ID. Buzz is besides taxable to a caller 25 percent tariff. Photo: MARIO TAMA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP/File
Source: AFP

German car elephantine Volkswagen said Thursday it had suspended deliveries of its electrical minivan ID. Buzz owed to a method contented amid reports the determination was influenced by costly US tariffs connected cars.

"No electrical ID. Buzz models made successful Hanover are presently being delivered to North America owed to a method callback mandated by US authorities," Tobias Riepe, a spokesperson for Volkswagen's commercialized vehicles division, told AFP.

The van's rear seats are "deemed excessively wide for the vehicle", Riepe said.

Citing institution insiders, however, German concern regular Handelsblatt reported the main crushed was precocious tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.

Manufactured successful Hanover, the ID. Buzz has since April been taxable to a caller US tariff of 25-percent connected imported cars that are not mostly made wrong North America.

That has made exporting the ID. Buzz into the United States untenable, according to Handelsblatt.

Foreign carmakers person scrambled to respond to Trump's levies, with high-end automaker Mercedes-Benz connected Monday saying it had delayed immoderate US deliveries successful the anticipation of tariffs coming backmost down.

Volkswagen itself reported declining US deliveries successful the archetypal fractional of the year, with conveyance shipments plunging 16.2 percent successful the 3 months from April, aft the duties came into force.

On Wednesday, German chancellor Friedrich Merz said helium was "cautiously optimistic" that the United States and European Union could onslaught a commercialized statement by the extremity of the period that would payment cardinal German industries similar autos and machine-making.

Source: AFP