Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Tuesday, April 8th. Happy Tuesday, folks.

Volkswagen freezing all U.S. imports, including Audi, due to President Trump's 25% auto tariffs.

That's right. Volkswagen slamming the brakes on all imports to the U.S.

as executives are scrambling to figure out how they will be affected by President Trump's tariffs.

The German auto giant, which owns Audi, it was holding cars that arrived after April 2nd

when President Trump announced a 25% tariff on all auto imports, and that kicked in at U.S. ports.

Volkswagen execs have ordered dealerships of a luxury brand and showroom

to work with the company's existing inventory of about 37,000 vehicles or roughly two months of sales, according to trade publications.

Now, America sells about a million Volkswagen vehicles a year, so it'll be interesting to see just what they want to do in the long run

and how they're going to play this out.

The terrorists may cause Audi executives to rethink the strategy as the 25% duty

could hobble the company's efforts to compete with, you know, German rivals like BMW or Mercedes.

Volkswagen, of course, has a plant in a line of cars from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

BMW has a plant in South Carolina with Mercedes factory in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Carmakers usually have a maximum just under three months worth the inventory on hand in the United States.

Could give some foreign automakers some wiggle room as they try to establish what impacts the tariffs will have on

them as a company as a whole. Now, America alone sells about a million Volkswagen vehicles,

so we'll wait and we'll see just how they want to play the sound

and how they want to proceed with the tariffs.

But that's how it goes.

America First, folks.

That's what we all voted for.

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