The protests by Canadian truckers, upset with Canadian vaccine mandates, have been tying up traffic on the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, a key chokepoint for goods. It has become yet another supply chain problem for automakers.
The protests by Canadian truckers, upset with Canadian vaccine mandates, have been tying up traffic on the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, a key chokepoint for goods moving between the two countries. It has become yet another supply chain problem for automakers.
"It will inevitably be added onto the price increases, But the order of magnitude is weeks," he said, adding that the impact will depend on how many plants have to shut down and for how long. However, he added,"the longer this goes on, the more the built in buffers of given components run out, the more plants will start going down.
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