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Toyota to Upgrade Long Beach Manufacturing

Posted on 18 March 2022 by Ken Zino

Ford Motor Company successfully lobbied the Johnson Administration to expand the tax to Japanese automakers. The simple workaround at what was then Atlas Fabricators in 1972 was to produce Toyota truck beds for pickup trucks imported into the U.S. from Japan, a strategy also used by other importers.  Two years later, Toyota bought the operation and renamed it TABC, which become its first manufacturing investment in the U.S. It’s ironic that Ford, one of the Detroit Three companies that lobbied  for protection against imported light trucks, later did minor stateside work on the Turkish-built Transit Connect to escape paying the chicken tax. Continue reading →

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Milestones – Toyota Baja 10 Years of Tacoma Production

Posted on 2 December 2013 by Ken Zino

So much for the Obama Administration’s pledge, err political blather, to eliminate needless government regulations. The chicken tax stands after all these years. Moreover, so much for the Administration’s promise to create American manufacturing jobs. As to Ford’s conduct, well make up your own mind, but if the laughable proposition that “corporations are people” is used, then hypocrite applies. Continue reading →

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