'Sheer madness': Volkswagen stronghold town reeling after Trump tariffs

AFP English

Veteran auto workers who spent decades at the plants of German giant Volkswagen in Wolfsburg fear the worst for their city since US President Donald Trump’s ramping up of import tariffs, sparking global market turmoil. Volkswagen, a 10-brand group which also includes Audi and Porsche as well as Seat and Skoda, sold just over one million vehicles in North America last year, 12 percent of its sales by volume.

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00:00.

00:20We are already at home.

00:22We are now working.

00:24That's what's on them.

00:26And you don't know how it's going.

00:29The European Union has given it to us.

00:34But it's not taken care of.

00:37And now we don't know if we start to go up.

00:43Then one, then the one, then the one.

00:46At the moment it is a catastrophe.

00:49The end of the year.

00:53The end of the year.

00:55We are now in the afternoon.

00:58The end of the year is at the end of the year.

01:01This is a catastrophe.

01:03Furchtbar.

01:05It's a terrible disaster.

01:09But in America, it's normal with the price increase.

01:21It's absolutely a bad thing.

01:23It's just a bad thing.

01:25The man in the white house knows not what he does.

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