GM to increase truck production in Indiana
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Automakers in the United States utilize a complicated supply chain integrated throughout North America, with production facilities situated in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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Canada will match U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% auto tariffs with a tariff on vehicles imported from the United States.
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The array of automotive parts that President Trump plans to tariff is more extensive than the industry expected, raising concerns about significant cost increases for U.S.-built vehicles.
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General Motors says that it plans to hire an unspecified number of temporary employees at its Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant in the wake of a U.S. tariff on imported vehicles that took effect this week.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)— 4th district Fort Wayne City Councilman Scott Myers said Thursday’s announcement of increased production at General Motors’ Fort Wayne assembly is good news.
The Wall Street Journal reports one of the ideas behind the tariffs is to force companies to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. That idea took Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean to the front doors of the local General Motors plant.
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WANE Ft. Wayne on MSNFort Wayne GM plant announces increase in production, plans to hire temporary employeesGeneral Motors said the Fort Wayne plant will increase production, with hopes to hire around 225 temporary employees in an announcement Thursday.