In comments published by German tabloid Bild, Trump singled out German premium car makers BMW AG BMW, +1.36% and Mercedes-Benz DAI, +1.63%, saying automotive trade between the U.S. and Germany was a “one-way street.”
“When you walk down Fifth Avenue, everybody has a Mercedes-Benz parked in front of his house,” Mr. Trump said, according to a Wall Street Journal translation of Trump’s comments that appeared in German in Bild. Addressing the Germans, he was quoted as saying: “You were very unfair to the U.S.A. It isn’t mutual. How many Chevrolets do you see in Germany? Not many, maybe none, you don’t see anything at all over there. It’s a one-way street.”
German auto makers have a long history of manufacturing in Mexico. Volkswagen AG VOW3, +1.72% US:VLKAY operates one of the largest of its more than 100 plants world-wide in Puebla, Mexico, where it began producing Beetles in 1964. The plant now also produces the Golf and Jetta.
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