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Carmakers Push to Secure Chips as China Trade Spat Escalates
Silicon semiconductor wafers pass through a wet chemical cleaning machine at a Nexperia plant.
Photographer: Hollie Adams/BloombergAutomakers are bracing for fresh potential chip disruption, with China’s retaliatory export controls on an obscure Dutch supplier threatening to set off a chain reaction that could halt production lines.
Manufacturers in Europe are holding urgent meetings to fend off potential outages that could come within a month, according to people familiar with the matter.