Both Toyota and Honda had previously warned the Canadian government that without the USMCA they would shift production from Canada to the U.S. to avoid tariffs and secure long-term manufacturing stability. We presume a similar message was conveyed to Mexico.
Earlier today Toyota announced they were moving half of their Tacoma Truck production from Mexico to an expanded facility in Texas that will now encompass 5 million square feet in San Antonio.
(Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp. is moving production of its popular Tacoma midsize truck from a plant in Mexico to San Antonio as part of a $3.6 billion investment in the Texas facility.
The Japanese carmaker will build a second production line in San Antonio, where it currently makes full-size pickups and SUVs, and add some 2,000 new jobs by 2030, it said Monday.
The shift, following Toyota’s pledge last year to spend $10 billion on its US manufacturing operations over the next decade, comes as talks between the US and Mexico to renew a North American free trade agreement have stalled. President Donald Trump, who has pressed Toyota to invest more in the US, let a July 1 deadline pass without a trade pact extension.
[…] By moving some production of its best-selling truck to Texas, Toyota will shield itself from the impact of tariffs on Mexican imports. Autos shipped from Mexico are subject to US duties as high as 25%, which has hit Toyota and other automakers’ bottom lines and upended decades of cross-border production planning.
The expansion in San Antonio, which is nearly twice as large as had been anticipated, will double the size of the plant to about 5 million square feet. And it will bring Toyota’s total spending at the site to $8.3 billion since it broke ground there 23 years ago. (read more)
The new Japanese PM seems to be filling Abe’s shoes just fine…
China-Da is not going to like what happens when the US kicks them to the curb.
I have a couple friends in Canada that tell me news like this is heavily slanted by the CBC, if it’s even going to be reported.
Kinda just like here. Regardless, you know Carney is spinning.
And how is that different from NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, or MS”now full Commie”?
Elections have consequences.
And the next 2 national elections have STUPENDOUS consequences! POTUS Trump is far from perfect but when compared to what the Democrat/communists have in mind, we can’t afford to let any criticism affect our other voters. We MUST win!
The ” fa and fo ” part is always so satisfying
Slowly at first (1/2 now) then all at once (the other 1/2).
Oh what a difference it makes for one country to have a savvy businessman/developer as president who loves his country versus one headed by an installed globalist banker who doesn’t have a clue and despises his.
Let’s see how well that new deal with Germany goes to build new $20-30 BILLION DOLLAR Submarine. The German manufacturing is closing massive auto manufacturing due to extremely high skilled labor (when they can find any) and their destruction of readily available extreme power needs. Them new AI robots need sufficient electricity and welding requires massive arc welding that solar panels can’t produce, and there is zero available at night. The cost overruns will be enough to bankrupt even more of what finances the Canadians can afford, and I doubt that Uncle Xi will be willing to co-build or assist in the costs associated with this blunder. Come join the USA western Canadian provinces, before there is a fire sale for all of your natural resources by Ottawa to fund this and all their immigration programs for DIVERSITY (DEI) replacement citizens.
God bless President Trump-the greatest, most consequential president since Washington!
Good! You can’t build trucks out of fentanyl and cocaine anyway.
Well not all the parts.
Hee Haw San Antone.
Are the Snow Mexicans paying attention even a little bit???
“upended decades of cross-border production planning.”
Those words are music to my ears. I remember when H. Ross Perot was derided and ridiculed by the worthless media for his “giant sucking sound” depiction of what the long term consequences of NAFTA would be.
Who were these planners going to sell these products to when the inhabitants were being forced to endure their transformation into a “service based economy”? If they would not have sold out to short term greed by outsourcing overseas, there would have been many more customers here that could readily afford to purchase the products.
Tacoma, Schmacoma. Let me know when Toyota will sell me a US-legal Hilux, manual trans, crank windows, no radio, with knobs on the dash and no screens.
p.s. Yes, I’m weak: I’m in SW FL and would want air conditioning.
I’ve been wanting my old 1967 Ford pickup back for years now. Best vehicle I ever owned. Run circles around today junk. Cheap to fix if it ever broke. Once put a heater core in it in about 30 minutes start to finish just piddling around. Try that on todays trucks!
Toyota in Kentucky builds engines for the Canada plant.
Toyota in Kentucky is shifting things around and with the moving out of Lexus production……it’s not a stretch to think we can develop room to build vehicles here that are currently being made in Canada. I don’t know that we can absorb all of their production, but we can absorb a lot of production.
Things are in motion, but it takes time. But things *ARE* in motion here. Toyota does things long term. When Canada loses production…….they are not getting it back.
https://x.com/gamu0514/status/2027134612699525303
oh noes.