Jaguar Land Rover to enact shipment pause to US in April as it develops post-tariff plans

DANICA KIRKA

Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 6:21 AM 2 min read

LONDON (AP) — The British shaper of Jaguar and Land Rover cars is pausing shipments to the U.S. arsenic it works to mitigate the interaction of a 25% taxation connected conveyance imports imposed by the Trump Administration.

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive, 1 of Britain’s biggest carmakers, said Saturday that the intermission would instrumentality spot this month.

“The USA is an important marketplace for JLR’s luxury brands,” the institution said successful a statement. “As we enactment to code the caller trading presumption with retired concern partners, we are taking immoderate short-term actions including a shipment intermission successful April, arsenic we make our mid-to-longer word plans.”

The U.K. automotive manufacture is expected to beryllium deed hard by the caller tariffs, which travel astatine a clip erstwhile British carmakers are struggling with declining request astatine location and the request to retool their plants for the modulation to electrical vehicles.

“The manufacture is already facing aggregate headwinds and this announcement comes astatine the worst imaginable time,” Mike Hawes, main enforcement of the U.K.’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, said past week. “SMMT is successful changeless interaction with authorities and volition beryllium looking for commercialized discussions to accelerate arsenic we request to unafraid a mode guardant that supports jobs and economical maturation connected some sides of the Atlantic.”

The fig of cars made successful the U.K. dropped 13.9% to 779,584 vehicles past year, according to the SMMT. More than 77% of those vehicles were destined for the export market.

U.K. carmakers person already taken steps to lessen the contiguous interaction of the tariffs by gathering stockpiles successful the U.S. earlier the summation took effect.

SMMT figures amusement that exports to the U.S. jumped 38.5% from a twelvemonth earlier successful December, 12.4% successful January and 34.6% successful February.

British carmakers shipped 8.3 cardinal pounds ($10.7 billion) worthy of vehicles to the U.S. successful the 12 months done September, making cars the azygous biggest goods export to the U.S., according to authorities statistics.

But cars marque up a comparatively tiny portion of wide commercialized betwixt Britain and the U.S., which is heavy weighted toward services.

Britain exported 179.4 cardinal pounds ($231.2 billion) of goods and services to the U.S. successful the twelvemonth done September, with services making up 68.2% of that figure.