The automotive supply chain, which employs three times as many workers as the automakers, has also shown renewed strength.

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The spread of radioactivity from Japan to China, and across the Pacific to the US is most unsettling as it may impact food prices, the ability to supply cheap energy through nuclear power and the supply chain of automotive and electronic goods to the US and other developed economies.

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