The plant, Nissan Sunderland in the Uk remains under threat of closure in case of failure of a commercial agreement post-Brexit between the countries and the european Union warned, on Wednesday, the director of operations of the japanese carmaker.
The largest car factory in the Uk, installed in a city which had strongly voted in favour of the Brexit in 2016, is not “viable” if the country fails to reach a free trade agreement excluding the imposition of customs duties on the cars at the end of the transition period to the end of 2020, says Ashwani Gupta in an interview to the BBC.
He stressed that the majority of the buyers of the cars made at Sunderland, which has 7,000 employees, come from the EU.
After Spain, the United Kingdom
The Uk has left the european Union at the end of January to enter in a period of transition during which the two parties are negotiating an agreement that will determine their future commercial relationship. This period must be completed by the end of December, and despite the lack of progress, London refuses to extend the negotiations beyond the end of the year, at the risk of “no deal, “” potentially devastating for the economy.
The comments of Mr. Gupta to intervene a few days after the announcement of a broad restructuring plan of Renault, which plans the removal of 15 000 jobs around the world, 4 of which 600 in France, while its partner Nissan plans to close a factory in Spain to overcome the crisis of health for the coronavirus.
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Nissan says, since the fall, that its factory in Sunderland, where the manufacturer had decided to produce the crossover Qashqai is based on the assumption that an agreement would take place, could be shut down in the event of a ” no deal “, a possibility which becomes increasingly likely as the deadline approach without significant progress in the negotiations.
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