News / 'Out of step' Covid restrictions disrupt cross-border auto supply chains

Reopened US car plants are struggling as Mexico's car parts factories are not reopening at the same speed © Vadim Kulikov

By Ian Putzger, Americas correspondent

20/05/2020

Some folks in Daimler’s supply chain organisation probably aren’t feeling great at the moment.

After five weeks in limbo, the company’s SUV manufacturing plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was one of the first auto facilities in the US to resume production, coming back online in late April ...

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