Stellantis layoffs

[Dusty Dude]

The bad taste left in the mouths of consumers worldwide because of the current atmosphere will severly hinder sales of US products outside the USA.

Considering that they currently don’t buy our products at all because of their tariffs, we have no where to go but up on sales of US products.

Every time my wife travels to Europe on business, she brings different bourbons, Mr. Clean sponges, etc. to her colleagues because they are ridiculously expensive or impossible to find there. When her colleagues travel here, they bring all kinds of things home with them in an extra suitcase.

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[KCSgtMaj]

Why can’t the U.S. sell their products over seas for the same amount of tariff? And I don’t give two craps about the stock market. Vehicle prices are ridiculous due to massive greed on behalf of the auto mfg’s. Vehicles are probably the area of 30% inflated than what they need to be. Same with housing prices. There needs to be market corrections, maybe this will do it? Who knows. I do know one thing, the hatchet job that happened to U.S. manufacturing in the last 40 years has finally come home to roost, and the global pandemic proved it. Give it 18 months and let’s review it.

 

[7c102c600853ce38121]

I'll tell you a secret: we don't buy your products because its close to impossible to ship, and believe me, I tried.

Meanwhile getting something from China is as easy as buying local.

 

[Pape]

Don't disagree but the whiplash tariffs have resulted in a trillion dollar loss in the stock markets, companies delaying or stopping capital investments, laying off staff, products being pulling from shelves. All of this impacts the consumer, the little guy

Capital investment stopped way before the tariff IMO. As for layoff this one is to be taken with a grain of salt as I have the impression the tariff are use a scapegoat. Honestly I'm surprised the media is not talking about the wakeup call about our resilience on other country. It was discussed a lot during the pandemic when we realize we where have zero capacity to produce vaccine.

All in all I have the feeling we became complaisant.

 

[Wbino]

Considering that even Pathfinders come with recovery hooks/clearence the "Offroad" vehicle market is saturated.
Not to mention there are alot more options of vehicles than there were since Jeep was introduced.
If Chinese cars ever get to market here you can expect Jeeps slice of the pie to get even smaller, regardless of any choices the parent company makes.

 

[PunksJL]

Are we great yet???

Stellantis to temporarily lay off 900 US workers as tariffs bite - https://www.reuters.com/business/au...f-900-us-workers-following-tariff-2025-04-03/

 

[c20040215]

Are we great yet???

Stellantis to temporarily lay off 900 US workers as tariffs bite - https://www.reuters.com/business/au...f-900-us-workers-following-tariff-2025-04-03/

They are not being laid off. They are being liberated.

 

[Mifsuud]

Tossing tarriffs around doesn't fix anything. There are tarriffs already in place to protect certain industry. The US tried to save steel with tarriffs, didn't work very well.

Want a Toyota Hi-Lux? A truck I would purchase waaaayyyyy before a Gladiator. Nope,
"Chicken Tax" is used to heavily tax heavier use trucksmanufactured outside the US. And dont think for a second that a tarriff isn't a tax. The only reason it has a different name is to avoid the knee jerk reaction to "tax" we've been told we must have.

Shipping outside the US does impact a lot of products. From vehicles to hobby acrylic paints. If you like scale models your hobby just jumped over 20% with most kits coming from Japan and most paints from Japan or Spain.

Think about this: Europe won't import our food. Not because of shipping, because the quality is so unhealthy. That's easily the US best, most readily available export and part of the world won't accept it. Only when it's free after a natural disaster.

This is little more than political posturing so income tax on the rich can be cut before any real measure of impact can be tallied. Pretty sure the next budget is going to lead to another government shut down. This is a mess from any direction.

 

[RatZero]

All I have to say about this is that I'm on layoff starting Monday for two weeks and probably going back to a half shift schedule for the foreseeable future.

 

[JEEP4U]

I'll tell you a secret: we don't buy your products because its close to impossible to ship, and believe me, I tried.

Meanwhile getting something from China is as easy as buying local.

How about those new EU trade and regulatory developments ?

 

[Grayone]

What the reality suggests that the tariffs are not based in economic terms. They are designed to be a consolidation of the Orange Moron's power base. You want the tariffs to go away, you need your boot lick to gain the benevolence of the fearless leader. No economist of any stature indicates these tariffs are designed to improve the American economy much less the global trade scenario. Ever notice the only country, including the penguin islands, not to be subject to said tariffs is....wait for it....Russia! Coincidence you think? Buckle up boys we are in for a rough 4 years.

 

[2timing]

Meanwhile...... Ford used it to their advantage and offered employee pricing to everyone. Wake up Stellantis was going to lay the people off due to poor sales, and waiting to do it and blame it on the tariff.

I havent heard that GM or Ford did any lay offs

 

[NewbJLUOwner]

Its ridiculous. This whole situation is $%@&÷&
Nobody should lose there jobs through no fault of their own, EVER
I'm still trying to figure out how to tell my customers, you're goods are now approximately 35% higher. I've been able to delay, but unfortunately this latest shipment hitting customs is more expensive. I can't absorb this.
Btw> my Canadian customers have gone bye bye
Stock market crashes, 401k took a massive hit, all of this is ridiculous
Meanwhile, would anyone like to start a new chat group on Signal?
Smh

 

[flick2614]

Well that was quick. Are we great and rich yet?

 

[NWJeepr]

Your are being gas lit by an agenda driven media. The tariffs are a temporary tool to get other countries to drop their existing tariffs on our products, thereby opening up their markets to us. When other countries drop their tariffs, we will drop ours, and the prices for foreign products will stay the same.

A permanent tariff would work as advertised and increase prices, but that is not what is being enacted. Canada and Mexico have already removed a majority of their tariffs before ours went into effect. Other countries are already scrambling to negotiate to get the tariffs removed.

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