Nick Cook, from Oxfordshire, carries "a wallet full of drugs" around in case of a migraine attack. He will "try anything" to make the pain go away, he says.
The 59,203 vehicles made was the lowest April output for more than 70 years, with the exception of 2020, when production effectively stopped during the Covid lockdown.The Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said a wider change in the industry as it shifts from petrol cars to electric vehicles (EVs) had also temporarily reduced output.
However, new trade deals with the US, EU and India may help boost upcoming production, the industry group said.The April figure was 16% lower than the same month last year, and a quarter lower than March, when numbers were likely to have been boosted by manufacturers shipping more cars to the US before President Trump's 25% tariff on steel, aluminium, and cars kicked in., but the ruling does not apply to the tariff on steel, aluminium, and cars.
British car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is paying 27.5% tariffs on everything it ships to the US, which it said is costing it "a huge amount of money".The firm sends cars from its UK business to its US business - meaning it pays both export and import taxes on any cars it sends across the Atlantic.
The company also said it is frustrated that
to reduce tariffs on cars to 10% up to a quota of 100,000 vehicles is taking so long to come into effect."This was ultimately a negotiation in which President Trump was threatening other countries with a big stick and that stick just got considerably more ephemeral."
US President Donald Trump has been allowed to keep collecting tariffs while the White House appeals against a ruling that dealt a major blow to a key part of his economic policies.the Court of International Trade ruled that an emergency law invoked by Trump did not give the president unilateral authority to impose tariffs on nearly every one of the world's countries.
The New York-based court said the US Constitution gave Congress exclusive powers to regulate commerce with other nations, and that this was not superseded by the president's remit to safeguard the economy.Small businesses and a group of states had challenged the tariffs that have shaken up the world economic order.