Automotive News Europe — 2025-05-04
Automotive Industry
Jaguar Land Rover has resumed shipments of vehicles to the U.S. after pausing them following the announcement of tariffs by President Donald Trump’s government.
The U.K. company had put shipments of its Britain-made cars on hold in early April as it looked at ways to address the new trading terms.
“The USA is an important market for JLR’s luxury brands and 25 percent tariffs on autos remain in place,” a JLR spokesperson said in a statement on Saturday.
“As we work to address the new U.S. trading terms with our business partners, we are enacting our planned short-term actions,” the spokesperson said.
JLR, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, is developing mid- to long-term plans and will give a further update at its full-year results, which are scheduled for release May 10.
The automaker sold 430,000 vehicles in the 12 months to March 2024, of which almost a quarter were in North America, according to its latest annual report. In January the company posted a 17 percent drop in quarterly pretax profit.
News of the resumption of shipments was first reported by the London-based Times.
Shipments normally take around three weeks to arrive in the U.S., meaning the first vehicles would reach American ports on about May 20, the newspaper said.
U.S. key market for British auto exports
British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has said it will split the costs from U.S. tariffs between the company and its customers, and sell down its U.S. inventory while limiting shipments there.
Britain’s car industry employs 200,000 people directly. The U.S. is the second-biggest importer of British-made cars after the European Union, with a near 20 percent share, data from industry body SMMT shows.