Between tariff uncertainties, fuel prices, and inflation, it’s been a chaotic couple of years for automakers and consumers alike in the U.S. automotive market. Adding another complication, the Trump administration recently declined to extend the USMCA trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada for a new 16-year term. As a result, the agreement will instead undergo yearly reviews for a decade before it expires if the three North American countries don’t renew it first.
A big reason behind the decision is the government’s desire to revise the Rules of Origin requirements for cars. Under current USMCA rules, 75 percent of a car must be built using parts that originate from Canada, Mexico, or the U.S. to quality for duty-free status. The administration wants to increase the figure to 82 percent, as well as add a requirement that states half of a vehicle’s parts are specifically sourced from the United States, according to Automotive News.
Currently, a 25 percent tariff is imposed on all vehicles built outside of the U.S., as well as on foreign-made parts used in vehicles manufactured here. Thus, no car will escape some level of tariff; it’s impossible in the modern economy to manufacturer a car purely in the United States from only U.S.-sourced raw materials and finished parts.
About half of all new vehicles in the U.S. 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, too.
Curious which new cars, trucks, and SUVs see final assembly take place here in the U.S.A.? We have that list 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 that uses 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 covers the cars, trucks, and SUVs with final assembly in the U.S. that will escape any direct tariffs on completed vehicles. Again, components within them could come from elsewhere and thus are subject to tariff. This can have a relatively simple knock-on effect of forcing prices upward, or, in the worst case, it could force production to be interrupted if automakers and suppliers choose not to pay the tariffs and forgo using those parts in American-made SUVs, cars, and trucks. Automakers could even implement across-the-board price increases on all models regardless of country of origin to make up for profit squeezes or losses elsewhere in the lineup; increasing mandatory destination and delivery fees seems to be a popular way to make this happen of late.
Here are the vehicles assembled in the U.S. as of this writing, in alphabetical order by brand:
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