Melbourne caravan business left reeling with big order to the US
“The rate is difficult to digest and we are trying to decide the impact on the demand on sales volumes if we transmit it. If the rate is 10 %, we must take into account that immediate tariff cost by 10 % on these products that directly increases our landing costs,” said Payoussis.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanian has labeled rates as unjustified, saying that “this is not the act of a friend”, and Padoussis hoped that the government rejected. While accepting that the places of changing objectives push small businesses as Crusader to innovate, it hopes that a rapid action of the government protects Australian producers.
“The caravan industry is one of the latest bastions of the manufacturing industry and if it is not protected to a certain extent, it would be a shame for the fact that the same path as the automotive industry is off,” he says.
“We should go back to Trump and push to understand why he is doing it in Australia. In addition to beef, I don’t think they represent a threat in any way, form or form.”
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Crusader Caravans has reached record sales of month on month in the last six months after having released its 2025 models in October last year.
Aimed at the mother’s and bin market, the company’s producers up to 50 caravans per week, or more than 2000 per year. Crusader uses 250 people in its Epping production plant and has more than 28 models in its 2025 range at the price of $ 50,000 to $ 180,000.
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