With Auto Tariffs on Hold, Is Now the Time to Buy a Car?

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  Here's your money briefing for Friday, March 14th.

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  I'm Julia Carpenter for the Wall Street Journal.

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  Last week,

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  President Trump modified his plans for auto tariffs that affected vehicles and car parts imported from over the border.

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  During this interim period, between now and April 2nd,

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  this makes it much more favorable for our American car manufacturers.

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  That has car shoppers wondering what happens now.

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  So no one's exactly sure how to navigate this, especially with these ups and downs.

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  So this rollercoaster of will they or won't they tariffs is extremely difficult for all levels of players in the industry to plan around.

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  We'll talk with WSJ reporter Chris Ottz about how shoppers can approach buying a car in the meantime.

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  That's after the break.

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  The auto industry won't see tariffs for vehicles and car parts imported from Mexico and Canada until at least April.

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  But in the meantime, what does that mean for automakers, parts suppliers and car shoppers?

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  Wall Street Journal reporter Chris Ottz joins me to talk more.

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  Okay Chris, we have this 30 day pause on the tariffs affecting cars and many auto parts coming from across the border.

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  What are analysts saying we can expect during this period before tariffs unfreeze again?

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  Well, there's a lot of uncertainty about when these tariffs are coming back, if they are coming back.

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  And it's important to note just to clarify,

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  so what's happened here is Trump briefly imposed a 25% tariff on things coming over the border from Canada and Mexico.

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  And then he quickly did a little carve out for the auto industry,

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