While the high -end suffers, the Volkswagen group is considering a new restructuring.
In the German automotive family, there is Jean who laughs yellow and crying jeans. In the first category, by far the narrowest, Mercedes and BMW saw their respective semi -annual profits melt by 50 % and 29 % but survive better than the others in the crisis in the sector. In the second, Audi (- 38 %) and Porsche (- 71 %), the two subsidiaries formerly milk cows of the Volkswagen group, suffer, followed in depth by their subcontractors who, for their part, experience almost existential doubts.
This year, the publication of quarterly results coincided with the announcement of taxation of 15 % customs duties to the entry of the American market. The figure may be lower than 27.5 % temporarily applied since April 2025, it is compared to the 2.5 % in force under the Biden era and turns the industrial basis of companies, a long -standing dependent on their export strategy. “All this will result in billion euros in charges”, worries Hildegard …
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