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Tariffs are starting to show up in car prices.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshaw, in for David Brancaccio.

Higher tariffs are not working out so well for automakers.

Subaru is raising prices.

GM is reportedly freezing shipments to China.

Meanwhile, trade talks between the U.S. and Japan,

which is home to Toyota, Honda, and others, look to be moving slowly at best. Marketplace's

Nova Saffo has an update.

Analysts expected new tariffs, including on steel and aluminum and foreign-made vehicles, to push up prices.

Now, Japanese automaker Subaru says it's adjusting

its pricing to offset increased costs. Price hikes are reportedly as high as $2,000 on some models.

Meanwhile, Reuters says GM is halting shipments from the U.S. to China, despite a trade truce that

brought sky-high tariffs down, but not out. GM alone said

tariffs would cost the company as much as $5 billion this year. Ford pegged the number at $2.5 billion,

and is said to have already hiked prices on some models. Meanwhile, Japan, which the Trump

administration previously singled out as a country eager to make a trade deal,

appears to actually be in no hurry. Its top negotiator says the country is maintaining a key demand

that the U.S. eliminate tariffs on Japanese goods, not just reduce them. I'm Novosafo for Marketplace.

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