How Trump’s tariffs land in a British carmaking town


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Open this photo in gallery: New vehicles on a truck outside the Jaguar Land Rover factory in Solihul, England, on April 9.ANDREW TESTA/The New York Times News Service Solihull, a market town in England’s West Midlands, is home to one of Britain’s largest car factories, run by luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover. The factory, a collection of low-slung grey buildings spread over 300 acres, does not tower physically over Solihull. But its influence here is vast. Nine thousand people work directly for Jaguar Land Rover, known as JLR, while many more are employed by its contractors. So U.S. President Donald...