> Steel tariffs hurt automakers, for example, who now must pay more for the meta...

tzs on April 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: China Slaps Tariffs on U.S. Products

> Steel tariffs hurt automakers, for example, who now must pay more for the metal and deal with supply chain issues.

Many US automakers have factories in Mexico as well as in the US, and some models for the US market are built in those Mexican factories.

Question: will steel tariffs in the US encourage these automakers to shift more production to Mexico?

debacle on April 2, 2018 [–]

The potential changes to NAFTA make that a hard question to answer.