The Windsor Stellantis assembly plant was shown on April 1, 2025 at Windsor, Canada.
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Detroit – Stellantis Stops production in two assembly plants in Canada and Mexico when the company tries to move Donald TrumpNew round 25% of automotive tariffs It happened on Thursday.
The activities are the fastest and most drastic operation of the car manufacturer regarding the new Tariffswhich are applied to all vehicles imported to the USA, including Canada and Mexico.
Compliance with downtime covers two weeks in the producers of Windsor in Ontario, Canada and the whole April at the Toluc assembly plants in Mexico. Both start on Monday.
As a result of a break in the production of about 900 employees represented by the USA in supporting plants, they will be temporarily dismissed in addition to about 4,500 hours of employees of employees at the Canadian plant. According to the company spokeswoman, employees at the Mexico plant will continue to report to the facility, but they will not produce vehicles due to the terms of the contract.
On Thursday, we have employees, the head of the North American Stellantis Antonio Filosa said that the downtime downtime is associated with tariffs because the company reviews its options.
“We are still assessing the average and long-term impact of these tariffs on our activities, but we also decided to take some immediate action, including detaining production in some of our Canadian and Mexican assembly plants,” said Filosa. “These activities will affect some employees in several American propulsion and stamping plants that support these operations.”
The Canadian plant produces the Chrysler Pacific minivan and the recently released Dodge Charger Daytona EV. The Mexican plant produces SUV -Jeep Compass and Jeep Wagoneer's EV.
Filosa said that “the current environment creates uncertainty”, but she assured employees that a company that is still looking for a new general director, “is very involved in all our key stakeholders, including leading government leaders, unions, suppliers and dealers in the USA, Canada and Mexico.”