However, Ford spokeswoman Christin Tinsworth Baker said the shift in small vehicle production will not affect U.S.jobs, noting that two new products are coming to its MI plant.
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Earlier Thursday, Trump said in an interview on Fox News that Ford planned to “fire all their employees in the United States and.move to Mexico”.
“It’s really unfortunate when politics get in the way of the facts”, he said Thursday in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow.
Fields responded that the move would cost no jobs, with current workers to make higher-margin trucks and SUVs, and the issue shouldn’t be politicised.
“Over the next two to three years, we will have migrated all of our small-car production to Mexico and out of the United States”, Fields said at an investor conference in Dearborn, Michigan.
Ford has had operations in Mexico for 91 years.
Donald Trump alleged Ford plans to “fire” all of its USA manufacturing employees.
The comments appear to be targeting potential blue collar voters in swing states like MI and OH, places that political analysts believe will be critical to Trump’s chances of winning the November vote.
An inverse of Fields’ statement-“It’s really unfortunate when facts get in the way”-would actually hold up reasonably well as Trump’s newest campaign slogan”.
“Absolutely not. Zero. And what we announced is that we will be moving our Focus out of MI so that we can compete more financially in that particular segment”. Most of our investment is here in the US. “And you know what’s going to happen?”
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“Whoever is in the White House, we work for them productively”, he said. “They’re never going to leave”. He added that Ford would have to pay a 35% tax on any auto that comes back to the US if he becomes president. That country is now one of the world’s largest carmaking nations.
