"The US is going into a more isolationist policy stance, raising tariffs, trying to provide more effective protection to US manufacturing," says Mr Oganes.

It added that the plan would "also ready the manufacturing facility for the marque's transition to an all-battery electric vehicle future".

She told MPs that the company does not own any factories or manufacturing facilities, but works with a large network of suppliers, mostly in China, but also in Turkey and Brazil.

Trump has said the tariffs are needed to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

The A465 was part of a World War Two prosperity project to connect the south Wales' steel industry with the UK's old car manufacturing hub of the Midlands.