Harley-Davidson Value Cuts & Tariffs Enhance Bike Costs! • Complete Bike

Let’s simplify what’s taking place with the tariffs, costs and the financial system for motorcyclists: First the excellent news! Now you can purchase a brand new Harley-Davidson motorbike for beneath $10k (56%* larger in Canada) thanks to simply introduced worth cuts. Unknown if that is to realign H-D costs to competitors or it’s due to tariff’s, however it’s nonetheless excellent news. Now the set of unhealthy information. That worth lower is just for Individuals, there isn’t any worth cuts for Canadians or anybody else all over the world and it’s solely on the 2025 Harley-Davidson Nightster with the largest low cost on the base Billiard Grey shade. Additionally tariffs will solely improve motorbike costs within the USA, Canada, Europe, UK and really seemingly all over the world because of a slew of counter-tariffs and counter-counter tariffs!

I’m very completely satisfied to see Harley-Davidson decrease costs, it’s a terrific transfer, however it’s a drop within the bucket and $500 on a $10,499 motorbike is good however it’s lower than 5% off and it’s on one bike. Already H-D introduced a $110k motorbike final week. If we begin to see bikes not alter decrease in worth from the producers and sellers then we’re in for a world of damage like we haven’t seen because the mid-1980’s that prolonged to over 10 years of stagnation within the business.

Like we’ve seen within the know-how sector who has been hit with higher than 25% costs already, MSRP is now the “deal” or “sale” worth and you may’t discover merchandise at MSRP anymore. So who is aware of what number of of those $9,999.00 2025 Harley-Davidson Nightster bikes exist or shall be even made earlier than they get hit with 25%, 50% and even 100% tariffs.

Could I make a advice that you simply exit and purchase it TODAY if you happen to’re , as the specter of all these tariffs between Canada and USA implies that even this cheaper Harley-Davidson mannequin is barely going to go up! Sure, you heard that accurately, costs on bikes that both cross the border as a completed unit or are made utilizing components from one another’s international locations, is certain to go up. It’s true… Bikes ARE on each on the listing of tariffs being imposed by USA (25% all merchandise*) and Canada’s reciprocal (25% on bikes together with $60 Billion of different items) in retaliation to the unique tariffs launched by the USA. Plus most bikes are made from metal, aluminum, copper and use rubber tires (+25% totally different tariff) AND most bikes and motorbike components within the manufacturing course of cross borders a number of instances (every time it crosses add tariffs), So that you get the gist right here proper… HURRY UP and BUY NOW earlier than that mannequin goes from $9,999 to over $20,000! Heck, purchase something at MSRP proper now that’s on the showroom ground! In Canada that very same $9,999 mannequin is 56%** larger and solely going up as soon as extra tariffs come into play April 2nd. Bear in mind ALL THESE TARIFFS STACK ON TOP OF EACH OTHER!

I’ve included the suitable US and Canada tariff tales under if in case you have time to skim or learn them.

It’s complicated, it’s difficult and it’s hurting each business with the motorbike business in a weak place already as a consequence of getting old riders, international manufacturing and components and bikes not being a main automobile for almost all of riders in North America. Pay attention, on this aspect of the equation we’re all nervous and anxious about this and already there’s been a number of retailer closings, layoffs and 40% of companies now say they intend to layoff this 12 months. That’s lots of of 1000’s of jobs if not tens of millions. We’re probably a scenario worse than the “2020 pandemic” right here.

I hate to be hen little right here, however we’re seeing components of the sky now on the bottom and there’s extra to come back.

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* CUSMA and/or NAFTA agreements might or might not have an effect on some components), ** 12,499 CAD + 25% tariff = $15,623.75 CAD

HARLEY-DAVIDSON NIGHTSTER MODEL IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR UNDER $10,000

Dynamic Efficiency and Genuine Harley-Davidson Model, Now Extra Attainable Than Ever

Bike Tariff’s At present in Impact at a Look

Canada’s countermeasures embody:

• Imposing tariffs on $30 billion in items imported from the U.S., efficient March 4, 2025.
  • Canada’s countermeasures listing contains merchandise similar to orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, espresso, home equipment, attire, footwear, bikes, cosmetics, and sure paper merchandise.
• Canada will apply counter tariffs on extra imports from the U.S. on April 2

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary risk posed by unlawful aliens and medicines, together with lethal fentanyl, constitutes a nationwide emergency beneath the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA).

• Till the disaster is alleviated, President Donald J. Trump is implementing a 25% extra tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a ten% extra tariff on imports from China.  Power assets from Canada may have a decrease 10% tariff.
• President Trump is taking daring motion to carry Mexico, Canada, and China accountable to their guarantees of halting unlawful immigration and stopping toxic fentanyl and different medicine from flowing into our nation.
• The orders clarify that the movement of contraband medicine like fentanyl to america, by way of illicit distribution networks, has created a nationwide emergency, together with a public well being disaster. Chinese language officers have didn’t take the actions essential to stem the movement of precursor chemical substances to identified felony cartels and shut down cash laundering by transnational felony organizations.
  • As well as, the Mexican drug trafficking organizations have an insupportable alliance with the federal government of Mexico. The federal government of Mexico has afforded protected havens for the cartels to have interaction within the manufacturing and transportation of harmful narcotics, which collectively have led to the overdose deaths of lots of of 1000’s of American victims. This alliance endangers the nationwide safety of america, and we should eradicate the affect of those harmful cartels.
  • There may be additionally a rising presence of Mexican cartels working fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs in Canada.  A latest research acknowledged Canada’s heightened home manufacturing of fentanyl, and its rising footprint inside worldwide narcotics distribution

USING OUR LEVERAGE TO ENSURE AMERICANS’ SAFETY: Earlier Administrations failed to totally leverage America’s financial place as a device to safe our borders in opposition to unlawful migration and fight the scourge of fentanyl, preferring to let issues fester.

• Entry to the American market is a privilege. The US has one of the vital open economies on the earth, and the bottom common tariff charges on the earth.
• Whereas commerce accounts for 67% of Canada’s GDP, 73% of Mexico’s GDP, and 37% of China’s GDP, it accounts for less than 24% of U.S. GDP. Nonetheless, in 2023 the U.S. commerce deficit in items was the world’s largest at over $1 trillion.
• Tariffs are a strong, confirmed supply of leverage for safeguarding the nationwide curiosity.  President Trump is utilizing the instruments at hand and taking decisive motion that places Individuals’ security and our nationwide safety first.
• Although earlier Administrations have didn’t leverage America’s mixture of remarkable power and its distinctive position in world commerce to advance the safety pursuits of the American folks, President Trump has not.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO STOP THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND DRUGS: When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave him a mandate to seal the border. That’s precisely what he’s doing.

• The Biden Administration’s insurance policies have fueled the worst border disaster in U.S. historical past.

• Greater than 10 million unlawful aliens tried to enter america beneath Biden’s management, together with a rising variety of Chinese language nationals and other people on the phobia watchlist.
• This downside isn’t confined to the southern border – encounters on the northern border with Canada are rising as properly.
• The sustained inflow of unlawful aliens has profound penalties on each side of our nationwide life – overwhelming our faculties, decreasing our wages, decreasing our housing provide and elevating rents, overcrowding our hospitals, draining our welfare system, and inflicting crime.
• Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and unlawful medicine and narcotics of all types are pouring throughout our borders and into our communities.
  • Final fiscal 12 months, Customs and Border Safety (CBP) apprehended greater than 21,000 kilos of fentanyl at our borders, sufficient fentanyl to kill greater than 4 billion folks.
  • It’s estimated that federal officers are solely capable of seize a fraction of the fentanyl smuggled throughout the southern border.
• These medicine kill tens of 1000’s of Individuals every year, together with 75,000 deaths per 12 months attributed to fentanyl alone.
  • Extra Individuals are dying from fentanyl overdoses every year than the variety of American lives misplaced within the entirety of the Vietnam Battle.

BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS: President Trump continues to exhibit his dedication to making sure U.S. commerce coverage serves the nationwide curiosity.

• As President Trump stated within the Presidential Memorandum on American First Commerce Coverage, commerce coverage is a important part in nationwide safety.
• President Trump promised in November to “signal all essential paperwork to cost Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL merchandise coming into america, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will stay in impact till such time as Medicine, specifically Fentanyl, and all Unlawful Aliens cease this Invasion of our Nation!”
• Throughout his first time period as President of america, President Trump established the President’s Fee on Combating Drug Dependancy and the Opioid Disaster and declared the Opioid Disaster a public well being emergency.
• President Trump additionally has an extended report of placing America first on commerce. In his first time period, President Trump efficiently used threats of tariffs on Mexico to assist safe our border.
• When our nationwide safety was threatened by a world oversupply of metal and aluminum, President Trump took swift motion to guard America’s nationwide safety by implementing tariffs on imports of those items.
• In response to China’s mental property theft, compelled know-how switch, and different unreasonable habits, President Trump acted with conviction to impose tariffs on imports from China, utilizing that leverage to succeed in a historic bilateral financial settlement.
• Simply final week, President Trump leveraged tariffs to efficiently resolve nationwide safety issues with Colombia, swiftly reaching an final result that prioritizes the security and safety of the American folks and the sanctity of our nationwide borders.

SAFEGUARDING THE NATION: President Donald J. Trump is continuing with implementing tariffs on Canada and Mexico beneath the Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA) to fight the extraordinary risk to U.S. nationwide safety, together with our public well being posed by unchecked drug trafficking.

• Whereas President Trump gave each Canada and Mexico ample alternative to curb the harmful cartel exercise and inflow of deadly medicine flowing into our nation, they’ve didn’t adequately deal with the scenario.
• The movement of contraband medicine like fentanyl into america, by way of illicit distribution networks, has created a nationwide emergency, together with a public well being disaster.
• Mexican drug trafficking organizations, the world’s main fentanyl traffickers, function unhindered as a consequence of an insupportable relationship with the federal government of Mexico.
  • The federal government of Mexico has afforded protected havens for the cartels to have interaction within the manufacturing and transportation of harmful narcotics, which collectively have led to the overdose deaths of lots of of 1000’s of American victims.
  • Mexican drug cartels are identified for excessive brutality, corruption, and management over complete areas of Mexico.
  • The Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels manufacture fentanyl in clandestine labs they oversee in Mexico, in each powder type and pressed into faux capsules, and site visitors it into america by way of the various entry factors they management. 97% of seizures happen on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  • Cartel violence, together with armed drones and roadside IEDs, are coming in nearer and nearer proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border as cartels are extra actively concentrating on each other in addition to Mexican army and regulation enforcement personnel.
  • This alliance with the Mexican authorities endangers the nationwide safety of america, and we should eradicate the affect of those harmful cartels.
• There may be additionally a rising presence of Mexican cartels working fentanyl and nitazene synthesis labs in Canada.
  • A latest research acknowledged Canada’s heightened home manufacturing of fentanyl, and its rising footprint inside worldwide narcotics distribution.
  • Canada-based drug trafficking organizations preserve strong “tremendous labs,” principally in rural and dense areas in western Canada, a few of which might produce 44 to 66 kilos of fentanyl weekly.
  • Final 12 months’s northern border fentanyl seizures, although smaller than Mexico’s, may kill 9.5 million Individuals as a result of drug’s efficiency—proof of Canada’s rising position on this disaster.
  • Fentanyl seizures on the northern border within the first 4 months of this fiscal 12 months are shortly closing in on what was seized the whole thing of  fiscal 12 months 2022.
• Each nations’ failure to arrest traffickers, seize medicine, or coordinate with U.S. regulation enforcement constitutes an uncommon and extraordinary risk to America’s safety—demanding IEEPA motion to pressure accountability and shield American lives.

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS KEEPING HIS PROMISE TO STOP THE FLOOD OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND DRUGS: When voters overwhelmingly elected Donald J. Trump as President, they gave him a mandate to seal the border. That’s precisely what he’s doing.

• The Biden Administration’s insurance policies fueled the worst border disaster in U.S. historical past.
  • Greater than 10 million unlawful aliens tried to enter america beneath Biden’s management.
  • This downside isn’t confined to the southern border—encounters on the northern border with Canada are rising as properly.
  • The sustained inflow of unlawful aliens has profound penalties on each side of our nationwide life—overwhelming our faculties, decreasing our wages, decreasing our housing provide and elevating rents, overcrowding our hospitals, draining our welfare system, and inflicting crime.
  • Gang members, smugglers, human traffickers, and unlawful medicine and narcotics of all types are pouring throughout our borders and into our communities.
    • Final fiscal 12 months, Customs and Border Safety (CBP) apprehended greater than 21,000 kilos of fentanyl at our borders, sufficient fentanyl to kill greater than 4 billion folks.
    • Since 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has seized greater than 25,697 kilograms of fentanyl capsules and greater than 7,272 kilograms of fentanyl powder on the southern border, and greater than 659 kilograms of fentanyl capsules and greater than 650 kilograms of fentanyl powder on the northern border.
    • From 2021 to current, fentanyl has been the main reason behind drug overdose deaths within the U.S., adopted by methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in that order.
    • In response to the CDC, 68 % of all drug poisoning deaths in 2022 and 2023—216,294 complete—had been brought on by artificial opioids, primarily fentanyl.
    • It’s estimated that federal officers are solely capable of seize a fraction of the fentanyl smuggled throughout the southern border.
    • Extra Individuals are dying from fentanyl overdoses every year than the variety of American lives misplaced within the entirety of the Vietnam Battle.

BUILDING ON PAST SUCCESS: President Trump continues to exhibit his dedication to making sure U.S. commerce coverage serves the nationwide curiosity.

• As President Trump stated within the Presidential Memorandum on American First Commerce Coverage, commerce coverage is a important part in nationwide safety.
• President Trump promised in November to “signal all essential paperwork to cost Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL merchandise coming into america, and its ridiculous Open Borders. This Tariff will stay in impact till such time as Medicine, specifically Fentanyl, and all Unlawful Aliens cease this Invasion of our Nation!”
• Throughout his first time period as President of america, President Trump established the President’s Fee on Combating Drug Dependancy and the Opioid Disaster and declared the Opioid Disaster a public well being emergency.
• President Trump additionally has an extended report of placing America first on commerce. In his first time period, President Trump efficiently used threats of tariffs on Mexico to assist safe our border.
• When our nationwide safety was threatened by a world oversupply of metal and aluminum, President Trump took swift motion to guard America’s nationwide safety by implementing tariffs on imports of those items.

COUNTERING TRADE PRACTICES THAT UNDERMINE NATIONAL SECURITY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump signed proclamations to shut current loopholes and exemptions to revive a real 25% tariff on metal and elevate the tariff to 25% on aluminum.

• President Trump is taking motion to guard America’s important metal and aluminum industries, which have been harmed by unfair commerce practices and international extra capability.

• President Trump is reinstating the complete 25% tariff on metal imports and rising tariffs on aluminum imports to 25%.
  • Key reforms embody eliminating all different agreements, making use of strict “melted and poured” requirements, increasing tariffs to incorporate key downstream merchandise, terminating all basic authorized exclusions, and cracking down on tariff misclassification and responsibility evasion schemes.
• The international locations of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, the European Union, Ukraine, and the UK had acquired exemptions, which prevented the tariffs from being efficient.
  • By granting exemptions to sure international locations, america inadvertently created loopholes that had been exploited by China and others with extra metal and aluminum capability, undermining the aim of those exemptions.
• The President is exercising his authority beneath Part 232 of the Commerce Growth Act of 1962 to regulate imports of metal and aluminum to guard our nationwide safety.
  • This statute offers the President with authority to regulate imports being introduced into america in portions or beneath circumstances that threaten to impair nationwide safety.
  • In March 2018, President Trump invoked authority beneath Part 232 of the Commerce Growth Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. § 1862) to impose 25% tariffs on metal imports and 10% tariffs on aluminum.  These measures had been remarkably efficient in supporting restoration and reinvestment within the American metal business and saved the home main aluminum business from complete collapse. However exemptions and loopholes have permitted evasion of the tariffs and weakened the effectiveness of this system.
  • The reinvigorated Part 232 tariffs on metal and aluminum will assist this system’s unique goal of revitalizing the home metal and aluminum industries and attaining sustainable capability utilization of at the very least 80%.

Trump threatens additional tariffs as EU, Canada retaliate for these already in place

WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to escalate a world commerce warfare with additional tariffs on European Union items, as main U.S. buying and selling companions stated they might retaliate for commerce boundaries already erected by the U.S. president.

Simply hours after Trump’s 25% duties on all U.S. metal and aluminum imports took impact, Trump stated he would impose extra penalties if the EU follows by way of with its plan to enact counter tariffs on some U.S. items subsequent month. “No matter they cost us, we’re charging them,” Trump advised reporters on the White Home.

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Trump’s hyper-focus on tariffs has rattled investor, shopper and enterprise confidence and raised recession fears. He additionally has frayed relations with Canada, a detailed ally and main buying and selling companion, by repeatedly threatening to annex the neighboring nation.

Canada, the largest international provider of metal and aluminum to america, introduced 25% retaliatory tariffs on these metals together with computer systems, sports activities gear and different merchandise value $20 billion in complete. Canada has already imposed tariffs value an identical quantity on U.S. items in response to broader tariffs by Trump.

“We won’t stand idly by whereas our iconic metal and aluminum industries are being unfairly focused,” Canada’s Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc stated.

Canada’s central financial institution additionally lower rates of interest to organize for financial disruption.

Trump’s motion to bulk up protections for American metal and aluminum producers restores efficient tariffs of 25% on all imports and extends the duties to lots of of downstream merchandise, from nuts and bolts to bulldozer blades and soda cans.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated Trump would impose commerce protections on copper as properly.

With Wednesday’s tariff improve properly flagged prematurely, international shares had been barely modified.
However the forwards and backwards has left corporations unnerved, and producers of luxurious vehicles and chemical substances painted a dismal image of shopper and industrial well being. Greater than 900 of the 1,500 largest U.S. corporations have talked about tariffs on earnings calls or at investor occasions this 12 months, in accordance with LSEG information.

“We’re in a commerce warfare and when a commerce warfare begins, it tends to maintain itself and feed itself,” Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury stated on French tv.

JPMorgan’s chief economist forecast a 40% probability of a U.S. recession this 12 months and lasting harm to the nation’s standing as a dependable funding vacation spot if Trump undermines belief in U.S. governance.

A steep U.S. shares selloff in March has worn out all the good points notched by Wall Road following Trump’s election.

Backgrounder

Efficient March 4, 2025, the Authorities of Canada is imposing 25 per cent tariffs on $30 billion in items imported from america (U.S.).

These tariffs solely apply to items originating from the U.S., which shall be thought-about as these items eligible to be marked as a great of the U.S. in accordance with the Willpower of Nation of Origin for the Functions of Marking Items (CUSMA Nations) Rules.

These countermeasures are efficient as of 12:01 a.m., March 4, 2025, and can stay in place till the U.S. eliminates its tariffs in opposition to Canadian items. Canada’s countermeasures don’t apply to U.S. items which might be in transit to Canada on the day on which they arrive into pressure. Extra particulars on the administration of those tariffs can be found on the Canada Border Companies Company web site: Customs Notices (cbsa-asfc.gc.ca).

The listing of merchandise outlined on the tariff merchandise degree within the desk under needs to be learn along side the Schedule to Canada’s Customs Tariff.

Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian items

The Authorities of Canada has a complete plan to struggle again in opposition to the unjustified U.S. tariffs imposed on Canadian items whereas supporting Canada’s pursuits, industries, and staff.

What’s Canada’s plan in response to U.S. tariffs?

On March 4, 2025, the U.S. imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian exports, and 10 per cent on power product exports from Canada.

Canada has responded to the U.S. imposition of tariffs on Canadian items by introducing a primary set of countermeasures designed to compel the U.S. to take away the tariffs as quickly as potential.

Canada’s countermeasures embody:

• Imposing tariffs on $30 billion in items imported from the U.S., efficient March 4, 2025.
  • Canada’s countermeasures listing contains merchandise similar to orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, espresso, home equipment, attire, footwear, bikes, cosmetics, and sure paper merchandise.
• Canada will apply counter tariffs on extra imports from the U.S. on April 2 following the public remark interval.

On March 12, the U.S. imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian metal and aluminum merchandise.

Canada’s countermeasures embody:

• Following a dollar-for-dollar strategy, Canada is imposing, as of 12:01 am, March 13, 2025, 25 per cent reciprocal tariffs on a listing of metal merchandise value $12.6 billion and aluminum merchandise value $3 billion, in addition to extra imported U.S. items value $14.2 billion, for a complete of $29.8 billion. The listing of extra merchandise affected by counter tariffs contains instruments, computer systems and servers, show displays, sport gear, and cast-iron merchandise.

All choices stay on the desk as the federal government considers extra measures, together with non-tariff choices, ought to the U.S. proceed to use unjustified tariffs on Canada.