"Daimler will continue its constructive dialogue with the new government in the United States. Daimler has been firmly rooted in the US for decades. We are successfully producing passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the US and employ more than 22,000 people in the country. As an employer, exporter and good corporate citizen, we are an integral part of business and the public in the United States," Daimler AG spokesman Hendrik Sackmann said.
Soon after the US election, the president of Germany’s Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Clemens Fuest, warned that trade barriers that Trump is likely to introduce would "cause a huge damage." He noted that in Germany, 1.5 million jobs depend on US business, and the United States is Germany’s number one trade partner.
The Daimler Group is one of the world’s most successful automotive companies, owning shares in a number of car, bus, truck and motorcycle brands, such as Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi Fuso, KAMAZ and others.
Trade protection, which seeks to curb imports or promote exports by imposing barriers to trade, is strongly supported by Trump, who pledged to opt out of all free trade agreements under discussion and impose tariffs on imports from China and Mexico.
