{"id":146206,"date":"2018-06-25T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/harley-davidson-to-shift-some-bike-production-outside-us\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:25:50","slug":"harley-davidson-to-shift-some-bike-production-outside-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/harley-davidson-to-shift-some-bike-production-outside-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson to shift some bike production outside US"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harley-Davidson motorcycle engines are assembled at the company&#039;s Powertrain Operations plant on June 1, 2018 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/15EEF\/production\/_102193898_harley.davidson.g.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Harley-Davidson plans to shift some motorcycle production away from the US to avoid the &quot;substantial&quot; burden of European Union tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the EU introduced retaliatory tariffs on US goods, including bourbon, orange juice and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson has assembly plants in Australia, Brazil, India and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it will raise investment in its international plants, but did not say which ones.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;To address the substantial cost of this tariff burden long-term, Harley-Davidson will be implementing a plan to shift production of motorcycles for EU destinations from the US to its international facilities to avoid the tariff burden,&quot; the company said in an official filing to the US market regulator.<\/p>\n<p>According to Harley-Davidson the tariffs have added, on average $2,200 (\u00a31,660) to each bike exported to the EU from the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Harley-Davidson plans to shift some motorcycle production away from the US to avoid the &quot;substantial&quot; burden of European Union tariffs. Last week the EU introduced retaliatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}