Despite that, the response to those threats from industry experts and executives has been less than glowing. The UAW came out against the tariffs and Ford’s CEO Jim Farley called them unfair. In fact, Farley went as far as to hint that the President’s actions were contributing to a chaotic industry environment.

The biggest foreign supplier of cars was Mexico ($49 billion), followed by Japan ($40 billion), South Korea ($37 billion), Canada ($28 billion) and Germany ($25 billion).