{"id":269661,"date":"2025-04-16T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=269661"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:38:59","slug":"mini-paraliza-las-importaciones-estadounidenses-previstas-de-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2025\/04\/16\/mini-halts-planned-us-imports-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini paraliza las importaciones previstas en EE.UU. procedentes de China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Michael Peyton, Vice President for the Americas region at Mini, confirmed the move in a statement to Automotive News<\/em>. Among the models Mini wanted to offer stateside was the compact Aceman SUV, which is only available as a fully electric vehicle. Like the J01-generation Mini Cooper, the Aceman was co-developed by BMW\u2019s Mini brand and its Chinese partner Great Wall Motor, and is built at Great Wall\u2019s facilities in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in February<\/a>, the BMW Group already postponed its plan to produce electric Mini models at the Oxford plant in the UK indefinitely, citing ‘the multiple uncertainties facing the automotive industry.’ The initial plan was to begin building both the electric Cooper and Aceman in Oxford as well as in China from 2026. That means exporting the EVs from Europe to the US is also off the table for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even under President Joe Biden, the US government had already tightened restrictions on importing EVs from China. \u201cWe had a lot of things we were working on, on where to best source those products to make sure we could avoid the tariff situation we had with China,\u201d Peyton said with regard to the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, under Biden\u2019s successor Donald Trump, the tariff dispute has escalated \u2013 specifically with China. The US now imposes an additional 125 per cent duty (a total of 145 per cent) on imports from China. \u201cNow, it\u2019s become a lot more clear for a variety of reasons that [it] doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d Peyton added.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The consequence of Mini pulling the plug on Chinese-built electric models is a heavier-than-expected reliance on combustion engines in North America. \u201cWe\u2019re still moving in that direction,\u201d said Peyton, \u201cbut we\u2019ve seen, particularly for North America, ICE is still very much a thing and will be for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peyton emphasised that he would still like to bring the Aceman to the US, if it could be sourced from outside China. \u201cA product like the Aceman, I love it \u2014 it does fantastic for me in Latin America \u2014 but we just have to navigate some of those hurdles that make the business case work,\u201d he said. That said, Peyton considers local production at BMW\u2019s Spartanburg plant in the US unlikely due to the low expected volumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Automotive News also quoted a Mini dealer based in Portland, Oregon. Roger Botton described the decision not to bring the EVs to the US as \u201ca hard hit to the brand\u201d. According to Botton, his dealership could sell an additional 175 to 200 units per year if the electric models were available \u2013 representing an increase of around 35 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Peyton, vicepresidente para la regi\u00f3n de las Am\u00e9ricas de Mini, confirm\u00f3 el traslado en un comunicado a Automotive News. Entre los modelos que Mini quer\u00eda ofrecer en Estados Unidos<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":235976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[27655,56,98,9711,368,609],"class_list":["post-269661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-aceman","tag-bmw","tag-china","tag-great-wall","tag-mini","tag-usa"],"acf":{"post_article-format":{"value":"standard","label":"Standard"},"post_categories":[9930],"post_tags":[368,609,98,56,27655,9711],"post_thumbnail":235976,"post_thumbnail_listing":false,"post_thumbnail-caption":"","post_teaser-text":"Mini has put its plan to import two electric models from China to the United States on hold. The move comes in response to the new US tariffs on goods manufactured in China, including cars. As a result, the fully electric Mini Aceman will not be available in the US for the foreseeable future.","post_advert":false,"post_legacy":false,"post_original_image":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269758,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269661\/revisions\/269758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}