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Volkswagen says tariffs will dampen business as profit plunges

Natalie Fisher by Natalie Fisher
April 30, 2025
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Cars at the storage tower at the Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant in Germany on November 15, 2024. ©AFP

Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) – Europe’s largest carmaker Volkswagen said Wednesday that first quarter profit plunged due to higher costs as it warned of muted business for the rest of the year in the wake of trade tensions. Net profit fell 40.6 percent in the first three months of the year to hit 2.19 billion euros ($2.49 billion) even as revenue rose three percent to reach 77.56 billion euros.

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The 10-brand group, which apart from its namesake includes Audi, Skoda and Porsche, had warned earlier in April that one-off costs of 1.1 billion euros would weigh on its result. These included restructuring costs at its troubled software unit as well as EU fines for selling too many polluting vehicles, Volkswagen said.

For the rest of the year, the carmaker said that it expected business “towards the lower end” of its guidance, citing challenges including increased competition, more stringent emissions regulations, and trade tensions. US President Donald Trump has threatened and imposed a variety of tariffs designed to bring manufacturing back to his home country, including a levy of 25 percent on car imports.

North America took just over 11 percent of Volkswagen vehicle deliveries in the first quarter, making it the firm’s third most important region after western Europe and China. Speaking on a call for analysts and investors, Volkswagen’s finance chief Arno Antlitz said it was “too early to say” if Volkswagen would step up manufacturing in the United States to circumvent any tariffs. It already has a plant in Tennessee, but most of the vehicles it sells in the United States are imported.

Volkswagen expects a profit margin of between 5.5 and 6.5 percent for the coming year, but its guidance does not take account of changeable American tariffs. “It’s highly difficult to give a projection for the full year,” Antlitz said.

© 2024 AFP

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