Looking for love in the auto supply chain

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  One of the big economic surprises this year is how long it took tariffs to hit consumer wallets.

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  The keyword here is consumer wallets.

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  If you're, say, a car company, then, well, tariffs have been expensive.

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  That bill will likely be around $30 billion for the carmakers this year, according to Moody's.

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  And that will likely end up on the consumer side eventually with higher car prices.

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  Now, there is a solution for carmakers, and it gets to one of the main objectives behind tariffs.

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  Buy American.

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  Foreign automakers already have huge assembly plants in the US,

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  but lots of parts and materials come from overseas.

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  So to avoid these costly tariffs,

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  why not just switch to buying those parts from an American supplier?

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  Easy, right?

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  But how do you actually meet those US companies

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  for everything from raw steel to finished parts to staffing?

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  Well, there's always speed dating.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Stephen Basaha.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  On today's show,

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  we go to an auto-manufacturing speed-dating event to see

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