![]() ![]() Last year Trump went after Ford for plans to shift production of the compact Focus to Mexico. under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The tweet was the latest threat from Trump to tax companies that move production to Mexico and ship products back to the U.S. GM did import some Cruze sedans from Mexico last year to meet demand as it was rolling out a new version of the compact car, Morrissey said, but that has stopped and all sedans sold in the U.S. ![]() The Lordstown factory, he said, is not equipped to build the hatch. "It makes for news, that's all," Johnson said of Trump's tweet. The union, he said, is not protesting the move to build the hatch in Mexico. GM shares fell by about 1 per cent in premarket trading immediately after the tweet, but bounced into positive territory after the market opened Tuesday.Ĭruze hatchback production amounts to less than a day of output at the Lordstown plant, said Glenn Johnson, president of a United Auto Workers union local at the factory. in the fall, is built in Mexico for global distribution, Morrissey said. The hatchback, which went on sale in the U.S. The company sold about 172,000 Cruzes through November. last year, spokesman Patrick Morrissey said. GM imports only hatchback versions of the Cruze from a factory in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, and it sold only about 4,500 of them in the U.S. Trump tweeted early Tuesday that GM is sending Mexican-made Cruzes to the U.S. from Mexico.īut GM makes the vast majority of compact Chevrolet Cruzes at a sprawling complex in Lordstown, Ohio, east of Cleveland. company, President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to slap a tax on General Motors for importing compact cars to the U.S. DETROIT - In another tweet targeting a U.S. ![]()
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