Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is set to cut up to 500 management jobs in the United Kingdom (UK), as the carmaker faces pressure on sales and profits due to US trade tariffs.
The Carmaker made known, it would launch a voluntary redundancy scheme, and that the cuts were not expected to go beyond 1.5% of its British workforce. The firm described the development as “normal business practice”.
Last week, JLR disclosed a fall in sales in the three months to June caused partly by it suspending exports to the United States (US) as a result of tariffs and also due to the planned wind-down of older Jaguar models.
The company cautioned last month that, the decision by US President Donald Trump to impose a 10% tariff on British cars exported to the US would negatively affect its profits.
According to JLR, it “regularly offers eligible employees voluntary redundancy” and said the current programme was based on “the business’s current and future needs”.
It continued, that the UK-US trade deal on car imports gives it “confidence to invest £3.5bn” per year.
As part of a wave of announcements of tariff made by Trump earlier in 2025, UK exports of UK cars and automotive parts faced an extra 25% tax, on top of an existing 2.5% levy. This resulted to JLR suspending shipments of its vehicles to the US.
The UK-US deal, however, saw the tariff cut to 10% for a maximum of 100,000 UK cars, which matches the number of these vehicles that the UK exported last year.
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