Cash for Clunkers is saving jobs up and down the auto supply chain: from dealers to assembly workers and parts markers.

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Samsung, meanwhile, is expanding its huge supply chain reach into Africa with plans to develop new assembly facilities in Ethiopia.

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On Tuesday Alun Davies, the deputy minister for agriculture, told assembly members he had confidence in the food chain in Wales and there was no evidence of a risk to human health.

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Because, the company told us "a central location offers the most efficient business solution in terms of proximity to our vehicle assembly and engineering facilities, a highly skilled workforce and our supply chain".

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We've done that with our final assembly and we're now working with vendors farther down in the supply chain.

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Now a supply chain of myriad links runs all around the world, connecting designers, chipmakers, car-parts firms and assembly lines.

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