Ford will stop importing Chinese-built Lincoln vehicles to the U.S. starting in 2030 and expand U.S. production to replace them.
The redesigned Lincoln Nautilus is assembled in Hangzhou, China, then exported to U.S. dealers as Lincoln’s lone China-built import.
Ford has not named which US plants or investment amounts will add Lincoln production.
Ford has committed to phasing out imports of Chinese-built Lincoln vehicles for the US market starting in 2030 and to expanding Lincoln production at US plants to cover that volume, a shift that lands in the middle of higher tariffs and new limits on Chinese-connected vehicle technology. The current redesigned Lincoln Nautilus is assembled in Hangzhou, China, then exported to American dealers as Lincoln’s lone China-built import, and it is currently subject to a 52.5 percent US tariff on entry that Ford views as a major headwind.
The company has not spelled out which US factory will pick up the slack or how much money it plans to spend to add Lincoln volume. A new Ford assembly plant in Tennessee is scheduled to start production in 2029, and several reports point to it as a plausible, though unconfirmed, candidate to build future Lincolns alongside already-announced Ford trucks.
