If Kenya slapped a 20% tax on Ugandan eggs it would mean the foreign eggs would become more expensive and stop flooding our market and Kenyan poultry farmers would have a place to sell their eggs instead of the current situation where egg brokers troop to Uganda to get cheap eggs to flood the Kenyan market. This would increase kenyan farmer incomes and create jobs and wealth.

The US situation is even worse because when Toyota wants to sell cars to US consumers they build factories across the border in Mexico then take advantage of free trade deals and ship the cars to the US. With huge taxes for goods from Mexico it means Toyota and others will now have to move their factories to the US for their cars to be competitive. This will cretae jobs in the US and billions which woild have gone to mexico will remain in the US.

Toyota is the number one manufacturer of cars in America follwoed by Honda and Subaru. They make more Cars in america than GM and Ford. Clearly just like Trump, you just throw words around without research.

Update: The 20% tax mention/thought has been thrown in the trash

Toyota is expanding in Baja, too. Toyota U.S. sales chief Bill Fay confirmed on Wednesday that the company is expanding its existing plant in Baja to add annual production capacity of 60,000 Tacoma midsize pickup trucks for sale in the U.S. Production may start as soon as late 2017. The Tacoma is a hot seller in the U.S., even outselling the vaunted Prius hybrid in 2016.

"I’m a little excited to be able to get my hands on those Tacomas with my dealers," Fay told reporters Wednesday.

Asked about Trump's proposed border tax, Fay told reporters on Wednesday that the company is "watching this very closely."

President-elect Donald Trump set his sights Thursday on Toyota, attacking the Japanese automaker for expanding in Mexico to sell more vehicles to Americans, as he builds support for his proposed tariff on vehicles imported to the U.S.

The attack heightens tension between Trump and the auto industry over vehicles that are made in foreign markets for sale to American consumers.

"NO WAY!" Trump said in a tweet about Toyota. "Build plant in U.S. or pay big border tax."

During his presidential campaign, he repeatedly slammed Ford Motor for expanding in Mexico. Ford won the president-elect's praise Tuesday when it announced plans to cancel a planned $1.6 billion factory in Mexico and expand a Michigan plant.

Ford will still move production of the Focus sedan to Mexico, albeit to an existing plant, instead of a new facility.

Do you want to say that even the Wall Street Journal is wrong?

That 74B inlcuded Ford(s) Chrysler(s) GM(s) and a concoction of others you know why?

1. No American will accept anything less than $15 an hr plus 1.5 time for overtime
2. When these cars become very expensive to buy, these companies which have other plants in America, will close and die.

I understand Trump wants Americans to get rich so that he can sell more homes and host more people in his hotels...but there are better ways of going about that. Address the issues ie regulations at home.

Aren't we the same people who complain when Unilever and eveready close factories in Kenya and move production to Egypt (because of cheaper power etc)? Then we complain about loss of manufacturing jobs. Why should corporations become richer while citizens become poorer and once vibrant towns (and communities) become ghost towns? What is wrong with trump looking out for his people by ensuring manufacturing is done in the US? What if all those companies running from kenya to egypt and elsewhere were made to come back? Wouldn't we be having more quality jobs?

We can never force them to stay. If its power that is taking them to Egypt, then we better get busy in producing that power cheaply here. Eveready is not moving anything. No one uses makaa ya torch any more simple. Even trump needs to know more americans are in favor of clean power over dirty coal power, the KPLCs which are many there... you can change them the same way you change simcards in Kenya, are now letting their consumers know the amount % of clean power in their mix.

The facts of the auto industry are that when American car companies like Ford or Chrysler want to build cars for the US market, they don't manufacture the cars in the US, rather they build their factories in mexico to take advantage of the cheap labour and then they exploit the free trade agreements between the US and Mexico like NAFTA to sell the vehicles duty free in the US. Toyota has been doing the same. What Trump has done is to trash those bad trade deals and said that if you want to sell in the US you should manufacture in the US otherwise you will be slapped with some major tax, tax that will be used to build the wall. That is what any president who loves his country would do.

I am just surprised that Obama hadn't seen these bad trade deals. Maybe this is why we need businessmen like Trump (or Ohuru who have seen it and done it) to be the ones running govt and not career politicians and community organizers like Obama.