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​Data center servers and components containing the newest artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia are seen on display at the company's GTC software developer conference in San Jose, California, USA, on March 19, 2025.
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HARD NUMBERS: US lawmakers call for chip trackers, Elon’s PAC gets sued, Manitoba burns, Honda drains its Canadian battery investment, Rubber ducks migrate

Map of US car exports.
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Graphic Truth: The drivers of US car exports

The American car industry is big business, both economically and politically. As with most US industries, globalization has heavily intertwined the automobile sector with the rest of the world, leading to a complex web of imports and exports that help cars reach their destinations.

Graphic Truth: Where US automakers get their parts
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Graphic Truth: Where US automakers get their parts

No matter the part, domestic US automakers import huge amounts of each vehicle from abroad.

Volkswagen export cars
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Trump hits global auto sector hard with new tariffs

On Wednesday, ahead of what Donald Trump is calling “Liberation Day,” when the administration plans to unveil a series of “reciprocal” tariffs, the president signed an executive order levying 25% tariffs on automobiles and auto parts made outside the United States. The tariffs will come into effect on April 2.

​Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a press conference in Toronto, Canada, on May 30, 2024.
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Three amigos, or two?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday that Canada and the United States should sign a trade deal without Mexico that would put an end to the Three Amigos relationship that has governed trade between the three countries since 1994, when the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed.

Car thieves hit the gas. Drivers foot the bill.
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Car thieves hit the gas. Drivers foot the bill.

Vehicle thefts are up in the US and Canada, and politicians are crying “tough on crime.”

​A United Auto Workers union member holds a sign outside Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant to mark the beginning of contract negotiations in Sterling Heights, Mich., in July.
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US autoworkers drive a hard bargain

Unionized workers at America’s Big 3 automakers could be on strike as of Sept. 14. The 146,000 members of the United Auto Workers and their pugnacious president, Shawn Fain, are ready to rumble. For the first time, the UAW has not yet chosen a “target” company against which to strike but has threatened to walk off the jobs at all three at once.

Japan may ban sale of new petrol-powered cars by mid-2030s
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Japan may ban sale of new petrol-powered cars by mid-2030s

Carlos Ghosn's repeated arrests in Japan were 'extrajudicial abuse', says UN
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Carlos Ghosn's repeated arrests in Japan were 'extrajudicial abuse', says UN

Ghosn's wife steps up call for G-20 leaders to help her husband
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Ghosn's wife steps up call for G-20 leaders to help her husband