"North American car manufacturing is highly integrated between the three countries [US, Canada, Mexico], with parts going back and forth across borders as many as seven times during the production process."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Trumps-Tariff-Wars---What-Happens-Next-e2ulbbc
Why all this back and forth? Surely it would use less resources to produce a complete vehicle at one manufacturing complex? Even if you're importing specialist parts, they only need to cross the border once.
#manufacturing #AutoManufacturing