Stellantis halts Windsor and Toluca after tariffs

2025-04-03 · Publisher : Stellantis · Domain : Industry 4.0 & 5.0

On 3 April 2025, the day after new US auto tariffs, Stellantis pauses its Windsor (Canada) and Toluca (Mexico) assembly plants and temporarily lays off 900 US workers.

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Windsor (Ontario) stops from 7 April 2025, restart planned the week of 21 April; 4,500 employees affected.
Toluca (Mexico) pauses production for April.
900 workers at five US stamping and transmission plants are temporarily laid off.
The Unifor union attributes the decision to the tariffs announced by Donald Trump.

### What changes On 3 April 2025, the day after Donald Trump announced new tariffs, **Stellantis** pauses production at two assembly plants outside the US: **Windsor** (Ontario, Canada) and **Toluca** (Mexico). The effect immediately spreads to the US plants that supply them. ### Key facts - Windsor Assembly: stop from 7 April, restart planned the week of 21 April; **4,500 represented employees** affected. - Toluca Assembly: production paused for April. - **900 workers** temporarily laid off in the US, at the Warren and Sterling stamping plants (Michigan) and the Indiana transmission and casting plants (Indiana Transmission, Kokomo). - Antonio Filosa, then Chief Operating Officer for the Americas, mentions "immediate actions" while assessing the "medium- and long-term effects" of the tariffs. ### Why it matters The North American car industry works as a single value chain integrated across Canada, the US and Mexico. Tariffs therefore also hit US plants upstream and downstream. It is a concrete demonstration of the effect of trade barriers on just-in-time parts flows. ### Takeaway Plants idled the day after the 2025 tariffs: parts cross several borders before final assembly.

Stellantis halts Windsor and Toluca after tariffs

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