President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers, as worries persist that the tariffs could mangle domestic manufacturing. The pause comes after Trump spoke with leaders of the “big 3” – Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, on Wednesday. Edmund Zagorin, chief strategy officer and founder of Arkestro, a company that uses AI tools to navigate supply chain patterns joins LiveNOW’s Austin Westfall to help us make more sense of this.

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