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Automotive
Auto giant shuts down foreign plants as Trump moves to protect U.S. industry

Ā MxM News
Quick Hit:
Stellantis is pausing vehicle production at two North American facilitiesāone in Canada and another in Mexicoāfollowing President Donald Trumpās announcement of 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars. The move marks one of the first corporate responses to the administration’s push to bring back American manufacturing.
Key Details:
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In an email to workers Thursday, Stellantis North America chief Antonio Filosa directly tied the production pause to the new tariffs, writing that the company is ācontinuing to assess the medium- and long-term effectsā but is ātemporarily pausing productionā at select assembly plants outside the U.S.
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Production at the Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario will be paused for two weeks, while the Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico will be offline for the entire month of April.
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These plants produce the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, the new Dodge Charger Daytona EV, the Jeep Compass SUV, and the Jeep Wagoneer S EV.
Diving Deeper:
On Wednesday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, President TrumpĀ announcedĀ sweeping new tariffs aimed at revitalizing Americaās auto manufacturing industry. The 25% tariffs on all imported cars are part of a broader āreciprocal tariffsā strategy, which Trump described as ending decades of globalist trade policies that hollowed out U.S. industry.
Just a day later, Stellantis became the first major automaker to act on the new policy, halting production at two of its international plants. According to an internal emailĀ obtainedĀ by CNBC, Stellantis North American COO Antonio Filosa said the company is ātaking immediate actionsā to respond to the tariff policy while continuing to evaluate the broader impact.
āThese actions will impact some employees at several of our U.S. powertrain and stamping facilities that support those operations,ā Filosa wrote.
The Windsor, Ontario plant, which builds the Chrysler Pacifica and the newly introduced Dodge Charger Daytona EV, will shut down for two weeks. The Toluca facility in Mexico, responsible for the Jeep Compass and Jeep Wagoneer S EV, will suspend operations for the entire month of April.
The move comes as Stellantis continues to face scrutiny for its reliance on low-wage labor in foreign markets. AsĀ reportedĀ by Breitbart News, the company has spent years shifting production and engineering jobs to countries like Brazil, India, Morocco, and Mexicoāoften at the expense of American workers. Last year alone, Stellantis cut around 400 U.S.-based engineering positions while ramping up operations overseas.
Meanwhile, General Motors appears to be responding differently. According to Reuters, GMĀ toldĀ employees in a webcast Thursday that it will increase production of light-duty trucks at its Fort Wayne, Indiana plantāwhere it builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. These models are also assembled in Mexico and Canada, but GMās decision suggests a shift in production to the U.S. could be underway in light of the tariffs.
As Trumpās trade reset takes effect, more automakers are expected to recalibrate their production strategiesāpotentially signaling a long-awaited shift away from offshoring and toward rebuilding American industry.
Business
āTime To Make The Patient Betterā: JD Vance Says āBig Transitionā Coming To American Economic Policy

JD Vance on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” discussing tariff results
From theĀ Daily Caller News Foundation
By Hailey Gomez
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday on Newsmax that he believes Americans will āreap the benefitsā of the economy as the Trump administration makes a ābig transitionā on tariffs.
The Dow Jones Industrial AverageĀ droppedĀ 1,679.39 points on Thursday, just a day after President Donald Trump announcedĀ reciprocal tariffsĀ against nations charging imports from the U.S. On āRob Schmitt Tonight,ā Schmitt asked Vance about the stock market hit, asking how the White House felt about the āLiberation Dayā move.
āWeāre feeling good. Look, I frankly thought in some ways it could be worse in the markets, because this is a big transition. You saw what the President said earlier today. Itās like a patient who was very sick,ā Vance said. āWe did the operation, and now itās time to make the patient better. Thatās exactly what weāre doing. We have to remember that for 40 years, weāve been doing this for 40 years.ā
āAmerican economic policy has rewarded people who ship jobs overseas. Itās taxed our workers. Itās made our supply chains more brittle, and itās made our country less prosperous, less free and less secure,ā Vance added.
Vance recalled that one of his children had been sick and needed antibiotics that were not made in the United States. The Vice President called it a āridiculous thingā that some medicines invented in the country are no longer manufactured domestically.
āThatās fundamentally what this is about. The national security of manufacturing and making the things that we need, from steel to pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, and so forth, but also the good jobs that come along when you have economic policies that reward investing in America, rather than investing in foreign countries,ā Vance said.
WATCH:
With a baseline 10% tariffĀ placedĀ on an estimated 60 countries, higher tariffs were applied to nations like China and Israel. For example, China, which has a 67% tariff on U.S. goods, will now face a 34%Ā tariffĀ from the U.S., while Israel, which has a 33% tariff, will face a 17% U.S. tariff.
āOne bad day in the stock market, compared to what President Trump said earlier today, and I think heās right about this. Weāre going to have a booming stock market for a long time because weāre reinvesting in the United States of America. More importantly than that, of course, the people in Wall Street have done well,ā Vance said.
āWe want them to do well. But we care the most about American workers and about American small businesses, and theyāre the ones who are really going to benefit from these policies,ā Vance said.
The number of factories in the U.S., Vance said, has declined, adding that āmillions of workersā have lost their jobs.
āMy town [Middletown, Ohio], where you had 10,000 great American steel workers, and my town was one of the lucky ones, now probably has 1,500 steel workers in that factory because you had economic policies that rewarded shipping our jobs to China instead of investing in American workers,ā Vance said. āPresident Trump ran on changing it. He promised he would change it, and now he has. I think Americans are going to reap the benefits.ā
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