On the 3rd local time, automobile industry giant Stelantis said that due to the serious impact of Trump's tariff policy on the industry, they decided to sack 900 employees of their five U.S. factories and suspend production operations at two assembly plants in Canada and Mexico .

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Multinational automobile manufacturing company Stelantis Group said that the Chrysler assembly plant in Windsor, Canada will suspend production from the 7th to the 21st of this month. The factory has about 4,000 employees and is one of three in Canada. The Jeep Assembly Plant in Toluca, Mexico will also be shut down for about a month. Many Stelantis employees expressed concerns about the suspension of work.

Stellas Windsor plant staff in Canada: This is not a two-week issue, but a future issue. If it was only two weeks, it wasn't that bad, but we didn't know what would happen in two weeks.

Analysis points out that North American automobile production is highly integrated, and a single component may cross the borders of the two countries many times. The scope of the tariffs that come into effect this time includes parts in addition to the complete vehicle. Therefore, the shutdown of factory work in Canada and Mexico has also affected Stelantis' powertrain and stamping plants in the United States, with about 900 workers shutting down work. Trump once mentioned that in order to avoid tariffs, auto manufacturers need to build factories in the United States and hire American workers. But industry experts believe that due to the close ties between North American automobile industry chain, it will take at least several years or even decades to transfer jobs to the United States.