March 29, 2025

Trump Administration Imposes Auto Tarriffs. And Other Moves.


An all-electric Porsche in Leipzig, Germany. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images


Shares in automakers around the world, including many in Germany, Japan and Korea, fell after Trump announced tariffs on imported cars and car parts.

Shares in Tesla — which makes all the cars that it sells domestically in the U.S. — rose almost 3 percent.

Trump’s tariffs are likely to encourage more domestic car production in the long run, economists say. But in the short term, they will probably hurt the economy.

Experts say the tariffs will raise the average price of a car by thousands of dollars.


A federal judge ordered several Trump administration officials to preserve the messages from the Signal group chat planning attacks in Yemen.

Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested there probably would not be a criminal investigation into the Yemen chat.

The Health and Human Services Department plans to lay off 10,000 employees. The cuts will be especially deep at the F.D.A. and the C.D.C.