European automakers are gauging the influence of final week's U.S. ban on journey to and from most of Europe a important challenge for automakers and suppliers with operations, initiatives and administration groups on each continents.

However their fast response final week confirmed little actual fear.

The ban was one in every of a number of measures introduced by President Donald Trump to fight the unfold of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ban will forestall most overseas nationals from coming into the U.S. if they've traveled within the earlier 14 days to any of 26 European international locations, together with France, Germany, Italy and Sweden.

The announcement caught European automakers off guard, simply because it did political leaders within the affected international locations.

Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and Volvo have main U.S. operations, together with design and engineering facilities, R&D hubs, manufacturing crops and provide chains.

Automakers have been reticent to publicly focus on how they may work across the journey ban, or how the disruption may have an effect on...