Every New Car, Truck, and SUV Built In America

As President Trump lays out his latest tariffs, which he says will apply to seemingly everyone, everywhere, no matter what, you can bet your bottom trade surplus or deficit that they’re going to have an effect on the car industry. That is not in question—he’s singled out foreign-made vehicles and components with a 25 percent tariff, and in conjunction with a 10-percent-minimum tariff on every other country on all goods this means prices on new vehicles will rise.

Whether that is because some cars aren’t assembled here in America, or because even if they are, components within them needed to cross a border (maybe more than once), thus incurring—you guessed it—a tariff, it’s happening. Individual car parts—i.e., anything loose and not fitted to a completed vehicle, for example, are exempted, but only until May 3, so supplier parts and replacement parts, tires, and things like that will also go up in price. That’s why no matter what tariff Trump slaps on vehicles and components coming into America—or what’s exempted, which, per his April 2 executive order, suggests vehicles and components that count under the USMCA trade agreement between America, Mexico, and Canada, might escape the full 25-percent tariff for now, with only foreign-sourced components subject to tariff, not any sourced from America originally—it’s difficult to predict the ultimate impact on what customers pay at their local car dealership. We all just get to buckle in and figure that one out in the coming days and weeks as automakers’ pre-tariff car inventories are bought out, and post-tariff models start showing up on dealer lots. Just remember: About half of all new vehicles in America are imported, meaning they are assembled elsewhere and shipped here. Both domestic and foreign automakers do this, just as some foreign automakers build cars here in America, too.

Curious which new cars, trucks, and SUVs see final assembly take place here in the U.S.A.? We gathered that info up for you, thanks to reporting requirements of the American Automobile Labeling Act (AALA), which tracks vehicle assembly location, foreign and domestic parts content, and more on an annualized, model-by-model basis. This list differs from “the most American” vehicles you can buy, a determination we’ve published in the past that takes into account Cars.com’s American Made Index combining assembly location, parts sourcing, and more metrics for a third-party ranking of Americanness of a given vehicle. This list is simply the cars with final assembly in America that will escape any direct tariffs on completed vehicles, but, we stress again, components within could come from elsewhere and thus are subject to tariff, pressuring prices upward—or possibly interrupting production, since automakers and suppliers could choose not to pay the tariffs and forgo parts for (and therefore pause production on) even American-made SUVs, cars, and trucks. Or automakers could just implement across-the-board price increases, even on American-made models, just because, or to make up for profit squeezes or losses elsewhere in the lineup. There’s a lot of uncertainty about all that, but U.S.-built cars, trucks, and SUVs are clearer-cut: