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 Donald Trump had some tough words for the Germans at the NATO summit in Belgium on Thursday. “The Germans are bad, very bad,” he reportedly told Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Union. “Look at the millions of cars that they’re selling in the USA. Horrible. We’re gonna stop that.” 
  
 It is certainly true that Germany runs a big trade surplus with the world and with the United States. (Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with Germany was nearly $65 billion.) But Trump can’t stop the German cars from coming in to the U.S. because, to a large degree, they’re already here. See, it turns out that many “foreign” cars are actually made in the U.S. while many “American” cars are made in Canada and Mexico. That’s how globalization works today. 
  
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 Over the past few decades, in an often-overlooked dynamic, Japanese, German, and Korean automakers have sought to combat protectionist sentiment and insulate themselves from currency gyrations by opening large production facilities in the U.S.—particularly in the union-averse South. IAMA , the trade group for Asian automakers in the U.S., said its members last year produced 4.6 million cars between them, equal to 40 percent of all U.S. vehicle production, at some 300 facilities. 
  
 The German carmakers have been quite aggressive in building up their U.S. operations, too. In 1994, BMW opened a plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Having invested $7.8 billion in the plant, BMW now boasts that it is the company’s largest single facility in the world. And it has spurred investments by a range of suppliers throughout the state. The cars made in Spartanburg there include the EX3 and X5 Sports Activity Vehicle, and the X4 and X6 Sports Activity Coupe. Last year, Spartanburg produced a record 411,171 vehicles, about 34,000 per month. According to BMW, it sells about 26,000 cars per month in the U.S. Now, not all the cars BMW sells in the U.S. are made here. Some are shipped in from overseas. And many of the vehicles made in South Carolina—287,700 last year, or 70 percent—are exported to points around the world. The upshot: By exporting more finished vehicles from the United States than it imports to the United States, BMW may be helping to lower America’s trade deficit. 
  
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 How about that other big German carmaker, Daimler? Well, it has a host of research and manufacturing locations in the U.S. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is an impressive operation. Last year, workers in Tuscaloosa produced more than 300,000 vehicles—or about 25,000 per month. As the main distribution site for GLE and GLS Class vehicles, Tuscaloosa exports to 135 countries. In April, Mercedes-Benz sold 27,000 cars in the U.S. Again, not all the Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold in the U.S. are made here, but the company produces roughly as many cars in the U.S. as it sells here. 
  
 Or take Volkswagen. Volkswagen has a big plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it has been making the Passat and, lately, the seven-passenger Atlas SUV, whose rollout features this tear-jerking ad. It’s hard to get details about the production volumes at Chattanooga, since activity died down in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal. Volkswagen sells about 27,000 cars per month in the U.S. ||||| Donald Trump’s top economic adviser acknowledged that the president said Germany is “very bad” when it comes to flooding the U.S. with cars, but insisted it wasn’t a dig at one of the U.S.’s most important allies. 
  
 “He said, ‘They’re very bad on trade,’ but he doesn’t have a problem with Germany,” Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, said as Trump joined a meeting of the Group of Seven leaders in Sicily. “He said his dad is from Germany. He said, ‘I don’t have a problem with Germany, I have a problem with German trade’.” 
  
 The comments were splashed in the German press earlier and underline Trump’s distance from key allies on display in Sicily and yesterday at the NATO summit in Brussels. In a visit that included his hectoring of allies over defense spending and a rebuke by the U.K. over leaked intelligence, Trump singled out manufacturers for contributing to lopsided trade deficits. 
  
 Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back later on Friday at the close of the summit’s first day, saying that she had made clear to Trump that the German trade surplus with the U.S. “is a result of the good quality of our products.” 
  
 “To single out one country for attack is, I think, not so appropriate,” she told reporters. “We agreed with the U.S. that we’ll go over the details of the trade question intensively once more.” 
  
 Trade has emerged as one of the biggest rifts between the new U.S. administration and economic powerhouses around the world. Merkel and Trump clashed in their first meeting in the White House in March, when the president lambasted ostensible German trade negotiators. 
  
 Back then, Merkel pointed out that the European Commission oversees trade talks on behalf of member states. There are few signs that the two will see more eye to eye in Sicily. 
  
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 At the family photo in Taormina, inside the ancient Greek theater, Merkel and Trump stood side by side silently and the U.S. president later hung back while the other leaders walked away chatting in smaller groups. 
  
 Trump has complained repeatedly that Germany’s trade surplus with the U.S. is hurting the American economy. Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, exported goods to the U.S. worth about $66 billion more than it imported last year, leading to auto producers including Daimler AG, Volkswagen AG and BMW AG having been particularly targeted. 
  
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 Back in January, in a Bild newspaper interview, he threatened luxury-car maker BMW with a 35 percent import duty for foreign-built cars sold in the country. “If you go down Fifth Avenue everyone has a Mercedes Benz in front of his house,” he told Bild. Merkel shrugged the comment off, making a comparison to the prevalence of Apple iPhones in Germany. 
  
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 When asked about Trump’s comments on German trade as reported in Der Spiegel, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker confirmed the gist of them while pointing out that they’d been exaggerated due to a translation error. 
  
 “The Germans are bad, very bad,” Der Spiegel cited Trump as saying, citing unidentified participants at a closed-door meeting between Trump and EU officials in Brussels. “Look at the millions of cars that they sell in the U.S. Terrible. We’re going to stop that.” 
  
 Merkel’s government responded earlier to say that its position on trade balances “is well known,” “A surplus is neither good nor evil -- it’s the result of supply and demand,” German government spokesman Georg Streiter told reporters in Berlin. 
  
 The chancellor said that it would be a late night for the officials, known as sherpas, who are working to reach a joint statement on trade for the conclusion of the meeting on Saturday. 
  
 “The sherpas are going to have to work hard tonight to see how the final text on trade shapes up,” she said. ||||| Trump reportedly calls Germans 'very bad,' threatens to end German car sales 11:04 AM ET Fri, 26 May 2017 | 00:45 
  
 President Donald Trump has reportedly reignited tensions with his EU counterparts after calling the Germans "very bad" for their trade surplus with the U.S. 
  
 The president vowed to block German car exports to the U.S. during a meeting with top EU leaders on Thursday, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel. 
  
 "The Germans are bad, very bad," Trump said, according to participants in the room who spoke to Der Spiegel. 
  
 "See the millions of cars they sell in the U.S., terrible. We will stop this." 
  
 The comments were said to have been made in a meeting with the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the European Council President Donald Tusk, who both showed support for Germany. 
  
 The White House has since pushed back on these media reports and Juncker dismissed the claims on Friday, saying that the German reports were exaggerated. 
  
 "He did not say that the Germans were behaving badly," Juncker told reporters in Sicily ahead of G-7 talks. 
  
 "He was not aggressive at all and anyway we have taken the defense of the Germans," he continued. 
  
 "I was making clear that the U.S. cannot compare their trade situation with individual member states of the European Union. They have to compare their performances with the global performances of the European Union, and I made it clear that the commission is charged with trade issues and not the member states." 
  
 Trump has long voiced his frustrations with Germany's trade surplus with the U.S., insisting that German imports have damaged the U.S. manufacturing industry. 
  
 In January, he threatened to slap a 35 percent tax on German auto imports. 
  
 "If you want to build cars in the world, then I wish you all the best. You can build cars for the United States, but for every car that comes to the USA, you will pay 35 percent tax," he said in an interview with German newspaper Bild. 
  
 He also attempted to negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Germany when he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March. However, she insisted that all deals with EU member countries must be made multilaterally. |||||
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One of President Trump's comments during a meeting with EU leaders Thursday isn't going over well in Germany. "The Germans are bad, very bad," the president said, as quoted by Der Spiegel. It came during a trade discussion, with Trump's reference being about auto sales. "See the millions of cars they are selling to the US?" Trump said, based on accounts of those in attendance. "Terrible. We will stop this." European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pushed back at the sentiment, arguing that global free trade benefits all participants, and CNBC reports that he downplayed Trump's comments on Friday. "He was not aggressive at all, and anyway we have taken the defense of the Germans," said Juncker. A blogger at Slate takes issue with Trump's criticism, pointing out that BMW has a giant plant in South Carolina that churned out more than 411,000 vehicles last year, while Volkswagen has a big plant of its own in Tennessee. "I suppose Trump could try to stop the sales of German cars in the US," writes Daniel Gross. "But that would involve shutting down a bunch of factories on American soil that employ American workers and use a lot of US-produced parts," something that would indeed be "very bad." German leader Angela Merkel hasn't responded to Trump's comments, notes Bloomberg, but a government spokesman did. "A surplus is neither good nor evil," he said. "It’s the result of supply and demand." (Also making headlines: a Trump handshake and a shove.)