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They’ve been hiding behind the chicken tax, aggressively marketing high margin pickup trucks that only appeal to the local market for decades.
They only make 40% of cars sold in USA. Chinese EVs may push them over the edge but they’ve been teetering there since the Japanese invasion in the late 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobiles_manufactured_in_the_United_States
Also, less of, say, the Ford F-150 is done in the US than are Honda's or Toyota's models, so at some point, the question of what exactly one means by "US auto manufacturer" does arise.
What does "X country corporation" in any industry mean when they have shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Ireland or wherever tax rates and shelters can be best structured?
Corporations have always been and will always be resource leeches that will abandon a country once they no longer have any blood left to suck. The host organism here in the US has already been overcome and Corps are about to start digesting previously pristine federal lands and forests for mining, forestry, and the critical national interest of off-road ATVing.
There are no "country" corporations, they lobbied to be extra-national deliberately.