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United States: automaker bosses under pressure

President elect Donald Trump used the golden opportunity of the Detroit car show to demand that automaker bosses fall in line with his administration’s more protectionist stance. On Sunday 08 December, Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Chrysler automobile’s CEO announced that his company was going to both invest $1 billion in a move to modernize its facilities in Michigan and Ohio and create 2,000 new jobs by relocating car production currently being carried

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