The president of one of the largest public dealership groups, Sonic Automotive, said on a recent earnings call that automakers are "not going to sit back and lose billions and billions of dollars" due to tariff costs. So far they seem to have been eating the costs of trade barriers--prices have not risen much since they were introduced. But both automakers and dealer groups say that is unsustainable.
 
Sonic Automotive(美国最大的汽车经销商集团之一)的总裁在最近的财报电话会议上表示,汽车制造商“不会袖手旁观,眼睁睁看着因关税损失数十亿成本”。到目前为止,他们似乎一直在承担贸易壁垒的成本——自从关税实施以来,价格并没有大幅上涨。但汽车制造商和经销商集团表示,这种情况是不可持续的。