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Originally Posted by Full Noise
There's a whole heap of legal reasons as to why this doesn't happen. The USA doesn't allow the importation of commercial vehicles. Trade agreements with Canada and Mexico are exemptions. That's why when the Monaro went to the USA, people were asking why the SS ute didn't go as well as they would have sold a metric s#!tload of them. All of the Volvo trucks that you see on the roads over there are produced in the USA as well. Now taking into account that Kenworth alone produces around 80,000 units a year for the US market, there is no way that Kenworth Australia could ever produce any amount that could remotely put a dent in any sales figures there considering that Kenworth Australia produces around 1400 units a year and wait times have blown out to two years. The issue of the low AUD to the USD is also a major reason why this will never happen.
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I'm guessing there's a commercial vehicle version of the 'chicken tax' which is their 25% tariff which is designed to prevent competition of their own manufacturing industry on light commercial vehicles.
Kenworth was struggling to build over 12 trucks a day on their Bayswater production line as their supply chain couldn't keep up, and then post COVID lockdowns they had issues with a heap of inexperienced new staff on the production line.