Toyota will start exporting trucks from United States plants next year in a bid to clear inventory created by falling sales, a Japanese news report said.
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Jiji Press, citing anonymous sources, said the main destinations would be Latin America and the Middle East. Toyota would not comment on the report.
Toyota (which recently axed plans to build Highlander SUVs in a new Mississippi plant under construction, turning it over to new hybrid Prius cars, and also consolidated Tundra pickup output at its new truck plant in Texas, see link below) will export the Sienna minivan from its Princeton, Indiana, plant to Latin America and Sequoia SUV, also made in Princeton, to the Middle East, Jiji said.
The California-made Tacoma pickup will be sent to Mexico (where Toyota has a pickup truck load tray plant).
Total light-truck exports from the United States are expected to reach tens of thousands of units a year for each model, the Japanese news agency said.
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