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2017-08-05 Economy

The Trump effect: Japanese carmakers adding 4,000 jobs at new car assembly plant

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-05 00:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Toyota moves to Texas

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-05 07:14|| 2017-08-05 07:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Japanese figured out a long time ago how to get around quotas and tariffs was to base in the Big Country. They had their big scare after the Arab oil embargo when Americans discovered fuel efficient, quality made, no 3 foot long page of 'extras', cars sending the UAW and Michigan congresscritters into panic to shut the imports down.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-05 07:39|| 2017-08-05 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Toyota moves to Texas.

They shut down their product development groups in northern Kentucky as well, Skidmark. That's how trailing daughter #2 and her husband ended up in Dallas less than six months after she started working for the company. It's still her dream job, though, and I'm sure it was good for them to be far away from all the parents.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-08-05 14:08|| 2017-08-05 14:08|| Front Page Top

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