Automaker Stellantis is temporarily halting production at a plant in Canada and a plant in Mexico shortly after President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported vehicles.
Stellantis is pausing production at the automaker’s Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, and its Toluca Assembly Plant in Mexico.
Stellantis’ Windsor assembly plant became some of the first casualties of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Stellantis is halting vehicle production at two assembly plants in direct response to President Trump’s newly enacted 25% auto tariffs.
Auto maker Stellantis NV is temporarily halting production at assembly plants in Windsor and Mexico and laying off 900 workers at six U.S. factories as it weighs the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported cars.
A Stellantis spokesperson told the publication that the layoffs would impact workers at five Midwest plants, specifically the stamping plants in Sterling Heights and Warren, Michigan, as well as three plants in Kokomo, Indiana, that make transmissions and metal castings.
Stellantis NV said on Thursday it was temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities and pausing production at one assembly plant each in Mexico and Canada, after U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs were announced.