Detroit automakers feud over Trump’s threatened truck tariffs, Bloomberg says

U.S. carmakers have mounted a furious, last-minute lobbying blitz over the Trump administration’s potential tariffs on medium- and heavy-duty trucks, in a fight pitting Detroit’s legacy automakers against each other, Bloomberg’s Keith Naughton, David Welch, and Jennifer A Dlouhy report. Stellantis (STLA) has lobbied the administration in recent days to waive or soften a possible 25% tariff that could otherwise hit medium-duty Ram pickups the company makes in Mexico, according to people familiar with the matter. General Motors (GM) and Ford (F), meanwhile, have urged Trump administration officials to dismiss the request, said the people. Ford argued that shielding Stellantis from the medium-duty truck tariffs would hand the company a cost advantage over U.S.-assembled trucks that contain imported parts already subject to tariffs, they said.