UPDATED: Trump Warns Toyota To Build In US, Not Mexico, Or 'Pay Big Border Tax'

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Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JANUARY 5, 2017, 2:24 PM EDT

Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon blasted Toyota Motor Corporation over the company's plans to build a new factory in Mexico, which were announced in April.

Trump has previously called out American companies for plans to move factory jobs abroad, but Toyota is based in Japan, not the United States.

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

Toyota Motor said will build a new plant in Baja, Mexico, to build Corolla cars for U.S. NO WAY! Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax.

1:14 PM - 5 Jan 2017
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Trump wrote that Toyota plans to build a new plant in Baja. However, the company plans to expand production at an existing Baja plant and announced the construction of a new car plant in Guanajuato in April.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-toyota-cars-mexico

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UPDATE:

Donald Trump just threatened Toyota — but it looks like he got the facts wrong

By Ylan Q. Mui January 5 at 4:37 PM

President-elect Donald Trump continued his Twitter tirade against the auto industry on Thursday, slamming Toyota for investing in Mexico but appearing to misstate key details of the company’s operations.

Trump warned the Japanese carmaker over Twitter that it could face hefty fines for building a plant in Baja, Mexico, to sell the popular Corolla sedan to American consumers. But Trump’s tweet looks to be incorrect: Toyota’s factory in Baja assembles Tacoma trucks, according to the automaker. A new plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, will manufacture Corollas.

That factory broke ground in November, and production is expected to begin in 2019. The work is being shifted to the plant from a facility in Canada. In a statement Thursday, Toyota said that there is no change in employment and production in the United States as a result of the new operations.

“Toyota has been part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. for nearly 60 years,” the company said. “Toyota looks forward to collaborating with the Trump administration to serve in the best interests of consumers and the automotive industry.”

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Ryan already said uh-uh to tariffs and Toyota has red state plants in

in MS, TX, WV, IN, KY and AL. Maybe if he were Don the King, Toyota would have something to worry about.

IOW, Trump's having a shite day and wants to change the subject.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Just got to love the way this A--hole

is screwing the Stock Holders. Just caught a interview with Art Kasian,the go to Guru of Wall Street,and he was really concerned about Trumps Tweets. Conversation talked about insider trading and who might be involved. BTW,the new plant will be located new Mexico City and not Baja.

This whole thing is not going to end very well for our Country. Toyota is largely owned by the Japan Government. And Japan is the second largest owner of US debt.

[Blanks]

34. It'll be even scarier...

When Ryan invests our SS into the stock market.

[Wellstone ruled]

36. Can't wait till these Idiots go their.

Been around for 75 years,and every time the GOP even looked at the Third Rail,they kissed their asses goodbye. Bring it baby,you want people in the streets,go there.

[underpants]

3. Baja - Guanajuato.....same diff right?

[Coventina]

11. Only difference is about 1400 miles....

About the distance between Seattle and Phoenix.

Naw, pretty much the same thing...

[randome]

4. When Trump says he will renegotiate NAFTA, I'm sure Mexico laughs at him.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]

[2naSalit]

8. Mexico is pissed...

many workers there are not happy about the cheeto's twitstorm.

I think he's ot thrilled that the immigration rates have dropped when it comes to the southern border, how do you get more Mexicans to cross the border? Destroy their income base.

FTFF!!!

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. Yup, Ford cancelling the new plant in Mexico

will mean about 2000 fewer jobs than they were counting on there, at least that's what I heard on NPR.

[2naSalit]

45. Same here.

That's where I heard it too.

[Initech]

48. To be a fly on the wall in that room...

[GusBob]

5. Just after 1 pm huh? wonder what happened to Toyota stock at that tome?

[muntrv]

6. Hey Donnie! Make your Trump line of clothing in the US first!

[Cattledog]

7. I didn't know Toyota was an American company.

[DonCoquixote]

9. China has already condemned Trump for

government by tweet. Simply put American stocks are not going to grow if they have to fear that Donald will tweet and set off a political or economic disaster. it might do the CEOs good if they pool their money, make a hostile takeover of twitter, and cancel Don's privileges. Granted, where would probably get rewarded with a nice stock increase if it canceled Don's account itself, they may complain about free speech, but that's kind of hard to do when what you are fighting for is the right of corporations to cancel free speech if they feel like it. What's he going to do to a fireside chat on PBS every week?

As far as Toyota, it is even worse idea than it ever was to get Japan spooked. With China looking like it's going to take over the South China Sea, Japan knows that it is stuck its neck out for us, a neck that many in China would love to see chopped for both bowel reasons (like the sheer love of imperialism) and for some genuine reasons (like the fact that Japan really hasn't apologized for minor details like killing 22 million Chinese in World War II, 22 million, that is three Holocausts and 2 million to spare!)if Japan begins to feel like the US is going to leave it in the lurch, we can see an exact repeat of what is happening in Western Europe, namely a bunch of people scared, national pride bruised, and a bunch of fascist and ready to fill that void! Does Trump think that the Japanese do not have their equivalent of Breitbart, their version of Marine Le Pen, or Nigel Forange?

Let it sink in, Trump is not even in office yet, he is not even left Trump Tower yet, and already he has done something to encourage fascist on the Atlantic and Pacific fronts! Please do remember,, the last idiot who thought he can go ahead surround himself with enemies and somehow when was a fellow by the name of Hitler! Go ahead and chant about how I am breaking Godwin's law, because sometimes a fascist is a fascist. I really do not want to see what sort of wall the people Trump is encouraging would build, and I'm not talking about a wall between us and Mexico, I am talking about the modern version of the Berlin wall, which many across the world with love to see.

[Diclotican]

23. DonCoquixote

DonCoquixote

I saw Trump as a fascist 18 mounts ago - when he started his bid for the primaries.. He played straight out of the same script book Hitler used 90 years ago - and acted in a way true the primaries, and general election who was a scary reminder of what Hitler did in Germany - Of course it was differences between what Hitler did, and what Trump did - but the similarities is there - a Demagogue who is talking, and millions believe his words - and the fact Trump have the support of the US Nazi Party, the KKK and other groups, on the right who have had some of a Renaissance the last couple of years specially as an result of the election of Trump as the next US President.. should make everyone pause.. And it is clearly that many on the far right feel embolden enough, to make their identity known, as they marsh true streets again, treating everyone who is not in agreement with them. It is the way SA and later SS started - as groups who marched and treated ordinary germans to be quiet - and then ruled by fear....

Diclotican

[Coventina]

10. Ummmmm, Toyota is a Japanese company. It doesn't "owe" the US factories.

I mean, if they want to build here, great!

But exactly what obligation could they conceivably have to build here and not Mexico?

The man is an idiot!!!

[hexola]

12. And the jobs being moved - are from Canada!

And Canada isn't really losing jobs - they are going to build fancier cars in the Ontario plant...

I don't get it!

[Coventina]

14. He's just a complete moron. And a racist. No jobs for Mexicans!!!!

[scscholar]

29. Plus their vehicles made in Japan are higher quality

This move just hurts the American people with less reliable cars.

[Coventina]

30. Of course, that doesn't matter to His Orangeness

Reliability is a plebeian concern.

[scscholar]

35. This. When you can afford to just buy a new car...

rather than deal with years worth of hassle with repairs, then reliability doesn't matter. For normal people, a $1k repair will wipe-out their savings.

[d_r]

53. oh please nt

[PatSeg]

13. My god

The man is starting to believe his own hype. "Hey, I just tweet something and people do whatever I want! Its tremendous." He is pissing off too many really powerful people and he isn't even president yet. Someone needs to tell him he is not God and there are consequences to his indiscriminate tweeting.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. He'll probably keep doing it

until someone (his kids) takes his phone away. It's almost like his binkie. I say let him keep making an ass out of himself. He is what he is and as much as people kept warning others about him, far too many refused to see because they kept covering for him.

[PatSeg]

20. Oh, I agree

Let the man keep on tweeting into that huge hole he's created. Eventually they may have to put him on medication. Hope he buries himself before that happens.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Seems when he is on meds

it may last 30 minutes and maybe up to about an hour at most before he goes off the rails again.

[PatSeg]

31. "The crazy is strong in this one!"

"We'll have to increase the dosage."

[jmowreader]

15. I think Trump just fucked up

I don't think Trump wants to go to the World Trade Organization and explain to them why he's trying to order non-US companies around.

Also, I found this on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/16/toyota-guanajuato-mexico-plant-official/):

- Realignment of North American manufacturing operations
To more efficiently supply high-quality and attractive vehicles, Toyota will continue regional consolidation of North American production based on vehicle body type and size. In 2019, production of the Corolla will be shifted from the plant in Cambridge Ontario, Canada (TMMC) to the newly opened plant in Mexico, and the plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi (TMMMS) will continue to produce the Corolla; consolidating compact vehicle production to the Southern United States and Mexico.

TMMC will then focus its production on mid-sized vehicles of higher value, along with Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc. (TMMI).

Which is also what Ford was thinking when they decided to move Focus production to Mexico: it takes the same number of people and the same size factory to make a $15,000 car as it does to make a $25,000 one...so if we're going to hire American workers and pay them American wages, let's have them make expensive cars.

[msongs]

16. not LBN nt

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Just remembered this,

Carl Icahn owns Navistar International Truck company. Okay,they build the bulk of their trucks in Mexico. Do you thing Trump the Con Job will attack his number one fan,not going to happen. So much bullshit coming from this twit. Somebody is trading on this suckers tweets.

[weissmam]

19. he is loosing it big time

[TexasBushwhacker]

49. They need to either take his phone away

or break his tiny hands.

[leftynyc]

21. Hasn't anyone told PE pussy grabber

that the speaker of the house has already said he wouldn't even put a vote up on increasing tariffs?

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/ryan-bucks-trump-says-congress-will-not-raising-tariffs

[Sunlei]

24. Unfit trumps Republican "betters" said NO to border taxes. Pence better update his president.

[KWR65]

25. NAFTA prevents a tax on imports from Mexico

Trump is just blowing smoke. Toyota should just ignore him.

[HockeyMom]

26. Maybe he can ban Americans from buying JAPANESE cars?

[Initech]

33. So that would limit us to just GM, Ford, and Chrysler?

But only if they're American built?

[Crash2Parties]

37. Chrysler is owned by Fiat, no?

[Initech]

38. But Fiat owns most of Chrysler's assets including its' manufacturing facilities in Michigan and Ohio

And a lot of Fiat 500s and the new Alfa Romeos are going to be built in those facilities. Let's see what Trumpenfuror thinks about that!

[Crash2Parties]

39. No - not Alfa Romeos! That means JJ Abrams will reboot "The Graduate".

...complete with car crashes, explosions and sex at 85mph.

[Initech]

40. Nah, that sounds more Michael Bay-ish.

JJ Abrams would remake the Graduate with lots of lens flares and excessive cell phone usage.

[Crash2Parties]

42. Justin Lin - "The Graduate" meets "Fast & Furious"

[d_r]

54. are you

trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?

[dem in texas]

27. If trump messes with Toyota or Nafta, Texas will be the big loser

Toyota is moving its US headquarters to the Dallas area next year, they are building the campus right now. The president of Toyota US was on the Dallas PBs station and explained that it is cheaper to make one model in one factory, then ship all over the world. Toyota has several factories here in the US and the models made here are shipped all over the world. GM has a plant in Arlington making SUVs that is running 24-7 right now. GM is building a 3 billion dollar plant to stamp car bodies next to their Arlington plant. These are bodies will probably be shipped to many other countries. Don't need to start trade wars now.

As far as NAFTA goes, Texas has benefited from NAFTA big time. Texas leads the states in exports with over 20% of the Texas exports going to Mexico. Texas exports far more than Just oil and cattle, it is electronics, cars, software and many other items. The state economy is booming, even with the drop in oil prices, the unemployment rate is below the US average. Many big companies are relocating to Texas and having trouble hiring enough workers. Why anyone who lives in Texas voted for Trump is beyond me.

[asiliveandbreathe]

28. So, should Mexico look elsewhere to do business and create jobs

for its people?? - Just who do you suppose they might turn?/ - The world seems to be spinning faster away from the US...chumps are we (media) for giving this crass, unintelligent, POS any air time...on the other hand, the big R's could start impeachment at the drop of ANY pushback to their agenda..from anyone...Pence IS their guy..

....hateful people - just wondering who the hell are their constituents..are they really this hateful? - Are there more hateful people than we suspect? -

Me thinks ALL their pants were made too long -

[okasha]

41. Mexico's Lzaro Crdenas and Nayarit deepwater ports

were built specifically for trade with the Pacific Rim, especially China and Japan. They began looking past the US for trading partners long ago.

[Initech]

32. Trump to be proven wrong in 3... 2... 1....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. Trump get the facts wrong?

Perish the thought

[Initech]

46. Oh yeah! Called it!!!

[Wounded Bear]

47. Pretty sad when a foreign auto manufacturer knows more about how our gov't operates...

than the PEOTUS.

[Vinca]

50. Toyota is a Japanese company anyway and they have no obligation to have all their plants in the U.S.

By the way, any idea where in the U.S. the Trump neckties will be made????

[no_hypocrisy]

51. You beat me to the punch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota

More threats like that and Toyota will be happy to move every single plant out of the US and relocate in any other country.

[displacedtexan]

52. So...Trump doesn't want a Japanese company to move from Canada to Mexico if they

Want to sell goods to us here in the USA?

And to think I thought Goerge W. was a dumbass.