Last year, then-President Joe Biden announced a series of tariffs for goods imported from China into the U.S., including steel, aluminum, semiconductor chips, raw materials used in the construction of EV batteries, and automobiles, with levies as high as 100 percent. Shortly after replacing Biden in the White House, President Donald Trump announced that he intended to place tariffs of 25 percent on goods imported from Mexico and Canada, as well as an additional 10 percent on China. While Trump later delayed the implementation of tariffs on Mexico and Canada, China’s levies have since taken effect, and seem poised to impact the Lincoln Nautilus and Buick Envision the most.
According to CNBC, while there aren’t many vehicles produced in China that are subsequently sold in the U.S. at the moment, the Lincoln Nautilus and Buick Envision did account for 83,884 sales in 2024 (36,544 units for the Nautilus alone) – or around 95 percent of the 88,515 vehicles made in China and sold in America last year. Newly minted Ford CFO Sherry House said that the automaker will “assess the situation” of these Chinese tariffs “as it plays out, including the response from China, and evaluate whether or not it affects” the company’s strategy in regard to importing and exporting vehicles. Ford didn’t comment on whether or not these tariffs would impact pricing of the Nautilus, either.
The Lincoln Nautilus is produced solely in China at the Changan Ford Hangzhou Assembly plant and imported into the U.S., but along with its Chinese-built counterparts, only accounted for a total of 0.6 percent of new vehicle sales in the U.S. across 2024. However, the U.S. imports around $17.5 billion worth of transportation goods each year from China, including auto parts, so the tariffs could still impact the prices of other models as well.
This isn’t the only potential issue facing the Chinese-built Lincoln Nautilus, however. As Ford Authority previously reported, the U.S. Commerce Department recently finalized a rule prohibiting key Chinese and Russian software and hardware in connected vehicles from American roads. It was previously unclear if this rule would result in vehicles like the Nautilus from being banned from the U.S. altogether, but the final rule calls for software and hardware to be removed from vehicles sold in the U.S. by the 2027 and 2029 model years, respectively, meaning that FoMoCo could just opt to go that route.
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Shame on Ford and gm for offering those to American consumers and shame on the consumers who actually buy these.
Shame on you for supporting Trump
You have a phone made in China? An IPad? A computer? A smart watch?
Don’t shame me, dude.
Don’t compare $1,000 iPhones with vehicles costing $40,000 to $65,000. There is absolutely no justification for American consumers to buy these vehicles in the first place, they had many vehicles to choose from that are not made in China. By the way, I paid $40 for my Android.
I gave it a considerable amount of thought before buying my Lincoln Nautilus due to it being made in China, but after taking it for a test drive it drives just as nice as my 3 previous Lincoln’s. And this hybrid is truly a very quiet car unlike my Volvo xc60. Only had it for 3 weeks so we’ll see how reliable it is down the road. No pun intended.
Your recall is around the corner thanks to Failure Farley.
For now, Ford and GM will have little choice but to swallow the tariffs. Passing them into retail prices would make both SUVs uncompetitive.
Both vehicles should have been made in North America in the first place.
Both should not have been made in China to begin with. Most that buy them are clueless about the place of manufacture and could care less.
Wrong Boostie……….. we knew exactly where they were made. Trump supporters are clueless.
Ford and Lincoln should consider building the Nautilus at the Kentucky plant with the Escape and Corsair.
Agree!
These 2 Chinese-made vehicles should have a 100% tariff permanently.
Ciggy………. put a special ‘idiot’ tax on Trump voters
My 2017 MKX is getting long in the tooth, but I won’t even consider the Chinese Nautilus. Does Ford really save that much by offshoring these?
Good morning! I hope that all the folks who are so adamantly responding here have thoroughly researched this topic and refuse to buy any and all products originating in China. They might be surprised by the results. Hate me if you wish but I love my 2025 Lincoln Nautilus.
Yes Dave, we all buy a bunch of stuff made in commie China. Even our 2021 Corsair, which was one of the most American cars built that year, has about 5% Chinese parts. I have no problem with Ford making cars in China for the Chinese market, but when they purposely move production of cars intended for the US market to China to avoid paying American workers, I do have a problem with that.
I like the look of your 2025 Nautilus a lot and would probably buy one if it wasn’t built in China, as our Corsair is a little small, especially for long trips. Have final assembly in the US and I’ll buy one.
Me too Dave…….. I bought a 2025 Nautilus and love it.
And I love my new Nautilus, too, Dave.
Thanks for the common sense answer to people who buy so much stuff from China it’s absurd — their phones, smart watches, iPads, laptops, computers, and everything else tech.
They’re all hypocrites.
There is not enough volume of either the Lincoln Nautilus and Buick Envision to make it a significant factor in either importing or not importing them. The only reason they are imported is because these same models are sold in China and factories in the US don’t have to use capacity to make these lower volume models. If the volume of either one of these models were higher like closer to 100k then there would be a better case to use existing manufacturing in the US.
Look, China has a lot of people who need to eat, and shareholders love big stock buybacks. It’s a win win so long as the UAW and American consumers don’t care.