Author: The Detroit News
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Automakers discuss playbook on navigating tariffs, supply-chain challenges
SOUTHFIELD AND PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Local sourcing, backup vendors, onshoring, alternative designs and support for key trade agreements are part of major automotive suppliers’ strategies in navigating constant supply-chain strains. From the COVID-19 pandemic to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on vehicles and their parts to halted exports of semiconductors out of China by manufacturer…