Toyota Building $3.6 Billion Texas Plant, Creating 2K Jobs

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Toyota Motor Corp said Monday it will build a $3.6 billion auto plant in Texas and shift some truck production to the United States from Mexico.

The Japanese automaker said the 2.5-million-square-foot building ‌will be located on its San ​Antonio manufacturing campus and will open by 2030, creating 2,000 jobs. The company ⁠said it will move production of its mid-size ​Tacoma pickup truck from the Toyota Manufacturing Baja California plant ⁠in Mexico to the Texas plant when completed.

Toyota will continue to build Tacoma trucks at its Guanajuato plant in Mexico. ‌Toyota already produces Tundra trucks and SUVs ​at its existing ‌San Antonio assembly plant on the site where the new plant ‌will be built and a 500,000-square-foot rear axle plant is set to open in the autumn.

President Donald ⁠Trump has pressured automakers ‌to move ⁠more auto production to the United States and has hiked tariffs ⁠on autos, ⁠steel, aluminum and parts.

Toyota said it remains committed to its operations throughout ‌Mexico, Canada and the United States and urged Trump to extend a North American free trade deal ‌that automakers ​contend is crucial to ‌integrated auto production.

In 2020, Toyota moved Tacoma production from San Antonio to the Guanajuato plant, ​alongside the Baja plant that had produced the truck since 2004.

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