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Toyota asks U.S. dealers to help fight Republican border tax push

Jim Lentz: "Cost is going to go up, as a result demand is going to go down. As a result, we're not going to be able to employ as many as people as we do today." (Glenn Triest)
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By:
Ginger Gibson and David Shepardson
January 31, 2017 05:00 AM

WASHINGTON -- Days before a group of Republican lawmakers were due to discuss their party's controversial proposal to tax all imports, Toyota Motor Corp. sent an urgent message to its U.S. dealers -- tell the politicians the tax would seriously hurt car buyers.

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