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

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Stellantis is pausing vehicle production at two North American facilitiesā€”one in Canada and another in Mexicoā€”following President Donald Trumpā€™s 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.

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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 ā€œcontinuing to assess the medium- and long-term effectsā€ but is ā€œtemporarily pausing productionā€ at select assembly plants outside the U.S.

  • 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.

  • These plants produce the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, the new Dodge Charger Daytona EV, the Jeep Compass SUV, and the Jeep Wagoneer S EV.

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On Wednesday afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, President TrumpĀ announcedĀ sweeping new tariffs aimed at revitalizing Americaā€™s auto manufacturing industry. The 25% tariffs on all imported cars are part of a broader ā€œreciprocal 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 ā€œtaking immediate actionsā€ to respond to the tariff policy while continuing to evaluate the broader impact.

ā€œThese 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 Mexicoā€”often 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 plantā€”where it builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. These models are also assembled in Mexico and Canada, but GMā€™s decision suggests a shift in production to the U.S. could be underway in light of the tariffs.

As Trumpā€™s trade reset takes effect, more automakers are expected to recalibrate their production strategiesā€”potentially signaling a long-awaited shift away from offshoring and toward rebuilding American industry.

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ā€˜Time To Make The Patient Betterā€™: JD Vance Says ā€˜Big Transitionā€™ Coming To American Economic Policy

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JD Vance on “Rob Schmitt Tonight” discussing tariff results

 

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By Hailey Gomez

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday on Newsmax that he believes Americans will ā€œreap the benefitsā€ of the economy as the Trump administration makes a ā€œbig 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 ā€œRob Schmitt Tonight,ā€ Schmitt asked Vance about the stock market hit, asking how the White House felt about the ā€œLiberation Dayā€ move.

ā€œWeā€™re 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. Itā€™s like a patient who was very sick,ā€ Vance said. ā€œWe did the operation, and now itā€™s time to make the patient better. Thatā€™s exactly what weā€™re doing. We have to remember that for 40 years, weā€™ve been doing this for 40 years.ā€

ā€œAmerican economic policy has rewarded people who ship jobs overseas. Itā€™s taxed our workers. Itā€™s made our supply chains more brittle, and itā€™s 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 ā€œridiculous thingā€ that some medicines invented in the country are no longer manufactured domestically.

ā€œThatā€™s 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.

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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.

ā€œOne bad day in the stock market, compared to what President Trump said earlier today, and I think heā€™s right about this. Weā€™re going to have a booming stock market for a long time because weā€™re reinvesting in the United States of America. More importantly than that, of course, the people in Wall Street have done well,ā€ Vance said.

ā€œWe want them to do well. But we care the most about American workers and about American small businesses, and theyā€™re 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 ā€œmillions of workersā€ have lost their jobs.

ā€œMy 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. ā€œPresident 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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