Miller does not expect the tariff’s effects to influence major business decisions until early next year
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Few brands symbolize American freedom and rebellion quite like Harley-Davidson.
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The 123-year-old company is headquartered in Milwaukee and operates its largest U.S. manufacturing plant in York, Pennsylvania. Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s global tariff campaign — aimed at reshoring production to American shores — Harley-Davidson announced in June that it would return production of some products from Thailand to U.S. facilities.
That announcement came before the U.S. administration announced the Section 301 and Section 338 tariffs, and before Ottawa unveiled its retaliation against those measures and earlier Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum. If Canada implements duties on September 8, as planned, it would introduce a 50 per cent tariff on U.S.-origin motorcycle imports to Canada larger than 800cc with internal-combustion engines.
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Ottawa said its list of tariffs was crafted to protect the “domestic market share for Canadian companies,” rather than to target politically sensitive products in U.S. battleground states ahead of November’s midterms, but affecting Harley motorcycles could have political implications in at least one swing district: Pennsylvania’s 10th, a highly competitive congressional seat.
