President Donald Trump announced big new tariffs on cars.

That's where we're starting the Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Thursday, March 27th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

It was the latest salvo in an on-again, off-again global trade war.

President Trump announced plans yesterday to impose a 25% tariff on imported automobiles and auto parts.

He spoke from the Oval Office yesterday.

And this is very modest.

And what we're going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States.

If they're made in the United States, it's absolutely no tariff.

We start off with a 2.5% base, which is what we were at.

And we go to 25%. But it's not so simple to say that a car was made in the United States.

Vehicles sold under U.S. brand names like Ford rely on supply chains that snake back and forth

across U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.

And they use parts and components from Europe and Asia.

The new tariffs could add thousands of dollars to car prices after they take effect next week.

But Trump is gambling that consumers will accept higher prices on cars today in return for the

promise of regaining lost manufacturing jobs in the future.

Those jobs, though, are not a sure thing.

Thanks to automation, any new factories built in the U.S.

will need far fewer workers than they might have done in the past.

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