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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Example Sentences

This would align production with proposed Made-in-Europe regulations that seek to secure European industry through local-content requirements among other things.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

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

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

Later in the year the government introduced the Inovar-Auto programme under which imported cars attract higher taxes unless the manufacturer meets local-content requirements for innovation and engineering as well as fuel-efficiency targets.

From Economist • Oct. 10, 2013

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