IMHO Harley was already planning to move production off-shore. The tariff thing just gave them an opportunity to do it while deflecting the blame elsewhere. And while some of you keep saying the production will move to Europe, I don't see anything that actually says that. All they seem to be doing is looking for a place that won't be affected by the added tariffs that are being imposed by the EU on American goods. That gives them a huge number of places to move production that have much lower labor costs, which is what they really wanted anyway. The screwing the employees got under the previous CEO Wandell cut labor costs significantly, but now they have the opportunity to find some third world place where they can really find cheap labor. They definitely wouldn't want to build anything in Germany, where labor costs are among the highest in the world and much higher than what they currently have in this country.
Personally, I have no sympathy at all for the folks running H-D or their obvious ploy to blame this on tariffs. This is the same corporation that went crying to Uncle Sam back in the 70's and 80's because they couldn't compete with the much better Japanese products, and got stiff tariffs added to those competing products.
Jerry