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Automakers operating in the U.S. are freezing investment decisions as they process the Trump administration's push to reverse electrification targets and force more localization by increasing tariffs, Gestamp Executive Chairman Francisco Riberas said. The supplier boss also said Europe's EV transition has been "kind of a disaster."

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