Windsor workers feel whiplash as tariff flip-flop rattles local auto industry

Open this photo in gallery: Jon Azzopardi, president of Laval Inc. in Windsor, Ont.,, stands in front of a mold that is scheduled to be shipped to Ohio, on March 5.Dax Melmer/The Globe and Mail Jonathon Azzopardi, a manufacturer for the auto industry, needs to ship a piece of equipment from Windsor, Ont., to Detroit next week, but U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have cast the normally straightforward process into uncertainty. The tariffs, which came into effect Tuesday, upended decades of free trade and established customs processes by placing blanket 25-per-cent levies on most exports from Canada and Mexico. Around…