The letter added that spot reports indicated early problems in the availability of parts for automobile assembly.

Nissan will cease automobile assembly in what was once its flagship Japanese factory and cut 5,000 jobs in three years.

Its use as an automobile assembly plant dates from 1910, when it was purchased by Willys-Overland.

After the war GM purchased the building and converted it to automobile assembly.

The major industries in the zone including automobile assembly, biotechnology and computer software.

This more than offset the drag resulting from a 7.5 percent drop in automobile assemblies, to a rate of six million.

In the early days, the chips were mostly bought by companies that made specialized products in small numbers, like huge industrial machinery for automobile assembly.

A major contributor was a falloff in the rate of automobile assembly to 7.9 million units a year, from 8.3 million.

The major industries in the zone including automobile assembly, biotechnology and chemicals processing.

They were originally done, they were created for rapid tracking of automotive parts during automobile assembly in Japan.