Ford F-150 Production Halved by Aluminum Tariffs

0:00On April 8th, a fire back in September at a novelist aluminum plan in Oswigo, New York, threw the auto world into chaos, hitting suppliers hard for. Ford and others. Ford hit up the Trump administration for tariff breaks on imported aluminum to ease the crunch, but officials shut that down quick, saying, THE. Request weren't that urgent. Novelist feeds aluminum sheets to 10 big automakers like Ford, Stellantis, and Toyota, and they've been pulling metal from plants in Europe and South. Korea, to make up the gap. Problem is, those imports slam into a 50% tariff from Trump's trade rules, jacking up costs that automakers got a swallow. The fallouts real. Ford slashed F-series truck production by half, and low F-150 inventory is already digging their sales numbers. Analysts like Daniel Ives from Wedbush say Ford's in a tough spot, with all this pressure piling on in the current trade mess. Ford's point out Ford locked in deals pre-tariff, so these surprise hikes

1:01sting extra on the high aluminum F-150, hitting their profits deep. Sam Fiorani from AutoForecast adds, it's showing up straight in weaker sales. Word from Novelist is their hot mill should crank back to full speed by early May, but until then, expect these ripples to keep shaking up truck output, and costs across the board. Stay informed with US News Today, AI-powered updates.