percent if no new deal is reached within ninety days. now staying with the issue of potential terrorists german car bosses are due to meet us trade secretary robert light highs and later today executives from dima fox valley and b.m.w. will be trying to persuade the u.s. not to follow through on a tree a threat to slap tariffs on european made cost so what is their argument well first of all all three have big factories in the united states b.m.w. in spartanburg in south carolina mercedes in tuscaloosa alabama and folks back in chattanooga tennessee now together these plans in cloyd forty nine thousand people including supplies and service providers their dealers sell around one point three million vehicles each year and looking at the comic as a trade balance german carmakers export more off the u.s.