Countries striking agreements with the United States have pledged to buy more Boeing planes, but it’s not clear whether those orders were the result of President Trump’s tactics.

President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is often dismissed.

The German automaker said that U.S. import duties erased about $1.5 billion from its profit in the first half of the year, and it lowered its forecasts for the full year.