Ford Cuts Production After Fire at Aluminium Supplier
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:33.8 | Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, October 14th. I'm Kate Bullivant for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.3 | We're reporting that the Trump administration is working to publicly de-escalate the latest flare-up in trade tensions with China, while privately maintaining pressure on Beijing. |
| 0:51.6 | Trump's 100% tariff threat on Friday royal markets and came after Beijing |
| 0:56.8 | moved to impose restrictions on the export of rare earth minerals. China has also shown signs of |
| 1:03.4 | de-escalation with muted media coverage over the latest escalation and the country appearing |
| 1:09.4 | eager to save a summit between Trump and Xi Jinping |
| 1:12.9 | slated for the end of this month. Ford Motor is temporarily hitting the brakes on producing |
| 1:19.2 | at least five of its models after a devastating fire at a plant belonging to a key aluminum supplier. |
| 1:25.6 | The novellas plant in upstate New York supplies |
| 1:29.1 | about 40% of the aluminum sheet used by the auto industry in the US, with Ford being its |
| 1:35.9 | biggest customer. The United Auto Workers recently told members at Ford's Kentucky truck plant |
| 1:42.2 | that starting this week, the company will pause production |
| 1:45.7 | of its lucrative three-row SUVs, the expedition and Lincoln Navigator, because of |
| 1:51.8 | difficulties with aluminum supply. A memo viewed by the Wall Street Journal shows that the |
| 1:56.9 | pause is set to last a week. And Google is ramping up its artificial intelligence spending |
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