Bugatti Importers Unite With Insurers Against U.S. Auto Tariffs

Cars Are Not a Threat to National Security, Says The Auto Alliance's Thomas
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More than 2,300 comments flooded the U.S. Commerce Department when it solicited public input on its investigation into whether auto imports pose a threat to national security. Buried among the doom and gloom predicted by automakers and their parts suppliers are an assortment of anxieties about unintended consequences from the edges of the industry.

Here are some of the most interesting second- and third-order aftereffects of the tariffs the Trump administration is mulling on automobiles and car parts: