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CHICAGO (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) has suspended every unessential outlay and orbicular movement patch the automaker assesses the effect of the crisis in Nihon on the company, a GM spokesman said on Saturday.

In addition, GM module suspend creation in Zaragoza, Spain, on weekday and equilibrate digit shifts in Eisenach, Germany, on weekday and Tuesday, spokesman Klaus-Peter histrion told Reuters.

Japan, reeling from a helper and thermonuclear crisis after a large seism and tsunami, is a key bourgeois to the orbicular machine and technology sectors, making prolonged flutter a danger to both.

Automakers rely on "just-in-time" listing of their supplies to physique cars and trucks. Even a diminutive bourgeois of products that are fed to a bigger bourgeois that feeds the automaker's assembly plants crapper retard or halt container production.

Electronic products also are major components used in almost every machine produced in North America.

Analysts have said if the cater concern were busted for even a few weeks, the effect could be change in machine creation and higher prices or shortages of gadgets much as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPad and another tablets, smartphones and computers for months to come.

The Asian crisis, which has unpleated mass a large earthquake, wave and thermonuclear noesis plant disruption, hits the machine concern as GM was gaining deal in the U.S. mart and as every automakers in the U.S. mart looked nervy to the outflow months when sales rise. Jan and February are historically the minimal months for new container sales in the United States.

GM is the top-selling automaker in the U.S. market, followed by author Motor Co (F.N) and Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T)

(Additional news by Bernie Woodall and Nick Carey; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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