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Nissan considers transferring some domestic production to US, Nikkei says
Nissan reportedly plans to reduce production at its Fukuoka factory in western Japan and shift some manufacturing of its Rogue SUV to the United States as early as this summer.
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A person walks past the logo of Nissan at its showroom at the company's headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, on Feb. 13, 2025. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
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issan Motor is considering shifting some domestic production of US-bound vehicles to the US, the Nikkei reported on Saturday, as President Donald Trump ramps up trade tariffs on nations worldwide.
As early as this summer, Nissan plans to reduce production at its Fukuoka factory in western Japan and shift some manufacturing of its Rogue SUV to the United States to mitigate the impact of Trump's tariffs, the business newspaper said, without citing the source of its information.
The Japanese automaker's Rogue SUV, a key model in the US market, is now produced in Fukuoka and the United States, the report said.
On Thursday, Nissan said it would not take new orders from the US for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs after earlier Trump tariff announcements, marking, a drastic scale-back of its operations at a joint venture plant.
The automaker now plans to maintain two shifts of production of the Rogue at its Smyrna, Tennessee, plant after announcing in January it would end one of the two shifts this month.
Nissan sold about 920,000 vehicles in the US last year, of which about 16 percent were exported from Japan, the Nikkei said, adding the planned production shift could hit local suppliers' businesses.
