DETROIT (Reuters) – The automaker Stellantis NV, Peugeot’s parent company or RAM and JEEPS, announced Thursday that it would proceed to the temporary dismissal of 900 employees in five of its American factories, a measure linked to the break of its production on two sites in Canada and Mexico after the announcement of customs duties by the Trump administration.
“Stellantis continues to assess the effects of the American customs duties recently announced on imported vehicles and will continue its exchanges with the American administration on these policy changes,” said the Director of Operations of the Group for the Americas, Antonio Filosa, in a letter addressed to employees.
“The temporary interruption of production in some of our Canadian and Mexican assembly factories are among the immediate measures that we must take, which will have an impact on several of our American production and kissing group production sites that support these activities,” he said.
The Windsor’s assembly plant in Canada, where the minivan Chrysler Pacifica is manufactured, will be closed for two weeks and that of Toluca, Mexico, where the Jeep Compass and the Jeep Wagoneer S, during the month of April.
(Written by Kalea Hall and David Shephardson; with the contribution of Nora Eckert; Zhifan Liu, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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