Trump agrees to one-month tariff reprieve aimed at helping U.S. automakers
- APMA
- Mar 7, 2025
- 1 min read
David J. Lynch and Aaron Gregg, The Washington Post
March 5, 2025
His tariff pause averts the likely closure of auto plants in all three countries, which would have idled “hundreds of thousands of American autoworkers,” according to Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association in Toronto.
“This is not the president acceding to a request from Canada or Mexico for a carve-out. It’s the president making a deal with the automakers he put on the edge of crisis to step back from the brink,” Volpe said.
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