Made in Europe, or anywhere with an EU free trade agreement?

‘Made in Europe’ and the European Commission’s Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) proposal, published on 4 March, has sown discord between suppliers and automakers: both acknowledge that new procurement standards will untangle integrated global supply chains, but the former frame this as a positive and the latter a negative. However, as reports surface indicating outsider countries will be allowed into the fold, the purportedly EU-centric aims of the legislation are already questionable.