The current trade war with China is jeopardizing the U.S. bike industry, prompting a coalition led by PeopleForBikes to urge President Trump to exempt bike-related imports from tariffs. With 97.8% of bikes sold in the U.S. coming from abroad, primarily China, the industry's reliance on foreign supply chains has deepened over decades. Policymakers' previous failures to support domestic manufacturing have led to possible job losses, including layoffs and closures for companies that assemble bikes in the U.S. The coalition is pushing for policies to create a sustainable domestic manufacturing environment.
That decades-long cascade of policy failures forced U.S. bike companies to source most of the 200 or so parts in each vehicle from manufacturers in foreign countries, pushing the industry to its limits even before Trump sparked a trade war with their primary suppliers.
The bike sector has been forced to depend so heavily on foreign trade over the years that around 97.8 percent of all bikes sold today are imported from abroad.
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