Analysts: Parts suppliers likely to feel brunt of auto tariff compliance burden

The Trump administration’s newly imposed 25 percent tariffs on autos and auto parts will compel automakers and parts suppliers to reconfigure an integrated North American automotive supply chain as they try to determine the domestic content of imported vehicles, and the brunt of that burden, according to industry representatives, could fall on the group least prepared to carry it -- smaller parts suppliers. President Trump last week signed a proclamation imposing 25 percent tariffs on autos and auto parts. The...