local-content

American  

[loh-kuhl-kon-tent] / ˈloʊ kəlˈkɒn tɛnt /

adjective

1. of or relating to the number or percentage of the components of a product, as an automobile, that are manufactured in a specific country.

   Local-content laws say 90 percent of the components of the car must be made in the U.S. or import restrictions will apply.

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That would be a watershed for the European Union, which even in increasingly protectionist times has steered clear of local-content rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

But continuing negotiations with the U.S. on its local-content requirements pose headwinds, the brokerage says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

The European Union plans to postpone strict local-content rules that would have led to costly tariffs imposed on cars traded between the bloc and Britain beginning Jan. 1.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

In supposed success stories such as China’s solar-cell industry, it is unclear whether local-content requirements drove success, or whether innovation was hampered as foreign firms fled.

From Economist ● Nov. 23, 2017

Will American plants in fact gain an incentive to stay home, because Mexico will have to repeal local-content laws that force many companies that want to sell there to manufacture there?

From Time Magazine Archive