Posted on 11/18/2016 1:40:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Bill Ford’s phone call is the latest move by a business leader to thaw tension after Trump’s comments on trade
One of the U.S. auto industry’s best-known figures has extended an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump by informing him the car maker won’t move a small amount of production to Mexico, the latest effort by a business leader to thaw tension stemming from the incoming administration’s position on key issues, including global trade.
Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford and chairman of Ford Motor Co., called Mr. Trump on Thursday to tell him the company was reversing course on a plan to eventually relocate Lincoln sport-utility production from Kentucky to a factory south of the U.S. border. The auto maker is sticking with its $1.6 billion construction of a new small-car plant in Mexico, but is signaling confidence in its ability to work with Mr. Trump on making U.S. manufacturing more attractive to multinational companies.
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Trump’s not even officially in and he’s saving jobs.
Yep. I’ve got a co-worker from Kentucky who is all kinds of happy that the Ford plant there is seeing the reversal and is now not moving. The Louisville plant makes smalls SUVs (like the Ford Edge) and trucks.
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