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Detroit Auto Industry Spared From Trump’s Latest Tariff Program

President Donald Trump at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan on Jan. 13.
Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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By Gabrielle Coppola

February 20, 2026 at 11:19 PM UTC

Updated on

February 21, 2026 at 2:13 AM UTC

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Detroit’s automakers learned Friday night that they had been spared from tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after the US Supreme Court struck down most of his global duties.