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British vehicle production collapsed in May since 1949 after the tariff war of US President Donald Trump Aston Martin and other British car manufacturers forced to stop their programs to the United States.
The production of cars and van in British plants fell 33 percent from one year earlier to 49,810 units, and showed numbers of the number of engine manufacturers and dealers published on Friday.
The edition decreased for the fifth month in a row, which had marked the worst monthly performance for 76 years, as vehicle factories during the Covid 19 lockdowns in 2020.
British luxury brands, including Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin, Shipping of suspended vehicle In the United States from April after the Trump government had beaten higher tariffs on foreign vehicles imported in the USA.
Car programs to the US fell by 55 percent in May compared to the previous year and reduced the US share of exports from 18 percent to 11 percent. Exports to the EU also fell by 22.5 percent.
It is expected that these US programs will be resumed with the planned Implementation To reduce an American tariff from 27.5 percent to 10 percent for the first 100,000 vehicles that were delivered from Great Britain to 10 percent per year on Monday, which Trump agreed on Monday.
“While in 2025 it has proven to be an incredibly challenging year for British automotive production, there is the beginning of a certain optimism for the future,” said Mike Hawes, Chief Executive from SMMT, and citing the trade agreement and the recent unveiling of the united Kingdom, which promises to reduce the energy costs by up to 25 percent.
The agreement with the USA was announced on May 8, but the cars of cars have expressed frustration at the speed of its implementation. Only a few days before the deal came into force, companies still have to be informed about the specific allocation of the quota system.
“It comes live on June 30th. So we plan to invoice three months in 24 hours,” said Adrian Hallmark, Chief Executive by Aston Martin, on Tuesday at an SMMT event. “This is complexity and dynamics.”
Hallmark still welcomed the deal and said that British car manufacturers were now “less worse than some of our European and niece European competitors”.
Even before the US trade war broke out, British vehicle production It had decreased when the industry had difficulty reaching the country’s tough sales destinations.
Last year, Stellantis said that the government’s costs for compliance with the “Mandate” Null -Emission Vehicle “were partly behind his decision to close his Luton van factory and to consolidate his British business in his harbor factory in Ellesmere in Cheshire.
Ford also accused the mandate when it shortened 800 UK roles in a broader European restructuring last year.
