Jaguar Land Rover resumes US vehicle shipments after Trump tariff pause
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Richard Martin-Roberts
Jaguar Land Rover has restarted shipments of vehicles to the US after pausing them in the face of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, London’s Times newspaper reported on Saturday.
The first shipments of JLR vehicles bound for the US for almost a month left Britain on Wednesday, the report said.
JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, said in April it would pause shipments of its Britain-made cars to the US for a month as it considers how to mitigate the cost of Trump’s 25 per cent tariff on imported cars and light trucks, which came into effect on April 3.
Trump said on Thursday that he will soften the blow of his auto tariffs through an executive order mixing credits with relief from other levies on parts and materials.
British luxury carmaker Aston Martin’s CEO Adrian Hallmark said on Wednesday it would split the costs from US tariffs between the company and its customers, and sell down its US inventory while limiting shipments there.
Britain’s car industry employs 200,000 people directly. The US is the second-biggest importer of British-made cars after the European Union, with a near 20 per cent share, data from industry body, SMMT shows.
Published on May 3, 2025