Toyota to begin shipping US-built vans to S. Korea

Nov 01, 2011 | 02:41 PM | Jo Isenberg-O’Loughlin

Tags  US auto exports, South Korea, Toyota Motor North America, Yoshimi Inaba, Sienna, jo isenberg-o'loughlin

NEW YORK — Toyota Motor North America Inc. will begin exporting its top-selling, U.S.-built Sienna minivans this month to distributors in South Korea.

The move was not prompted by the passage in mid-October of free-trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Panama and Colombia. "The plans for Korean exports were in place prior to the agreement and to President Obama signing the FTAs," a spokesman for New York-based Toyota Motor North America told AMM. "However, we are....





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