Jaguar Land Rover slicing as much as 500 UK jobs as Trump’s commerce tariffs chew

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Your assist makes all of the distinction. Learn extra Luxurious automobile maker Jaguar Land Rover is axing as much as 500 administration jobs within the UK amid strain on gross sales because of commerce tariff woes.

The Tata-owned agency stated round 1.5 per cent of its UK workforce could be affected by the job cuts, that are going as a part of a voluntary redundancy programme for managers within the UK.

A spokesperson for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) stated: “As a part of regular enterprise observe, we usually provide eligible staff the chance to go away JLR via restricted voluntary redundancy programmes.”

It comes after JLR revealed final week that retail gross sales plunged 15.1 per cent within the three months to June after a brief pause in exports to the US and the deliberate wind-down of older Jaguar fashions.

The corporate stated the numerous fall in gross sales was partly pushed by the pause in shipments to the US in April after President Donald Trump’s administration launched new tariff plans.

In April, the US authorities stated it will launch a further 25 per cent tariff on automobile imports into the US, in an effort to encourage extra automobile manufacturing throughout the nation.

Nonetheless, the US and UK have since agreed a deal which might see a decrease 10 per cent tariff utilized to the primary 100,000 UK-manufactured vehicles imported into the US every year.

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JLR halted new shipments to the US in April however restarted exports in early Could (Alamy/PA) UK vehicles imported to the US past this threshold will nevertheless face a 27.5 per cent tariff.

JLR halted new shipments to the US in April however restarted exports in early Could amid hopes {that a} commerce deal for the sector could be struck.

The automobile agency noticed wholesale gross sales in North America drop by 12.2 per cent year-on-year after the pause.

However wholesale gross sales within the UK had been additionally closely down – tumbling 25.5 per cent within the second quarter – after the deliberate wind-down of older Jaguar fashions.

Jaguar stopped promoting new vehicles within the UK late final yr because it shifts its manufacturing to new electrical fashions, that are set to go on sale in 2026.