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Monterrey, Mexico – For nearly the whole year, only one of the five machines at a metal products workshop in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico, has been operational. The small business was forced to drastically reduce its production capacity after United States President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium. “It affected us…
The carmaker first announced the plan for battery production in 2021. Published On 12 Nov 202512 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Toyota Motor Corporation has begun production at its $13.9bn North Carolina battery plant as it ramps up hybrid production and confirms plans to invest $10bn over five years…
Stellantis announced a $13bn investment in the US, which will see production of the Jeep Compass move to the US from Canada. Published On 15 Oct 202515 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Canada has threatened legal action against carmaker Stellantis NV over what Ottawa says is the company’s unacceptable…
Ludhiana, India – On the floor of a Ludhiana spinning mill, 29-year-old Pankaj Kumar stands at his station, his fingers a blur as he knots loose threads and feeds them onto a spinning wheel. The yarn will soon make its way to the city’s textile factories, which produce woollen knitwear, hosiery, and other garments, much of…
Persistent uncertainty around US trade policy has kept Canadian businesses on tenterhooks, discouraging hiring. Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025 Canada had almost 1.6 million people unemployed in August as the economy lost thousands of jobs and its unemployment rate reached a nine-year peak, barring the pandemic years. On Friday, data released by Statistics…
Representative image | Photo Credit: Reuters The GST rate for labour charges (job work) has been increased from 12% to 18% and it is expected to hit hard the Micro, Small, and Medium-scale Enterprises (MSMEs). C. Sivakumar, president of the Coimbatore Tiruppur district Micro and Cottage Entrepreneurs Association, said one of the long-pending demands of…
In July, India’s best-selling electric scooter, Bajaj Auto’s Chetak, hit a big speed bump. A shortage of rare-earth metals had hit production plans, and the company was forced to almost halve its output. Bajaj manufactured just 10,824 units of the Chetak in July, as compared with 20,384 units during the same period last year, due…
Krysten Lawton, 53, works in health and safety at Ford Motor Company of Canada’s engine plant in Windsor, Ontario — mere blocks from the Detroit River — where she has worked for 30 years. Lawton is a fourth-generation auto worker in Windsor, an industrial hub abutting Canada’s US border near Detroit. Her great-grandfather, both grandfathers…
When Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was in China earlier this year for his third meeting with Xi Jinping since returning to office in 2023, he hailed the relationship between the two countries as “indestructible”. That proximity will likely increase even more following United States President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 50 percent…
The US imports roughly half of its copper needs each year, which is used in construction, transportation and electronics. United States President Donald Trump has said he will announce a 50 percent tariff on copper, hoping to boost domestic production of a metal critical to electric vehicles, military hardware, the power grid and many consumer…
