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Nissan has no ‘Plan B’ for Sunderland factory in case of no-deal Brexit

James Batchelor by James Batchelor
January 2, 2021
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Nissan has ‘no Plan B’ for its Sunderland plant in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to a source.

The Japanese car maker has repeatedly warned its Sunderland plant would not be viable should the UK not get a trade deal with the EU.

Nissan directly employs around 6,000 people in the north east and has already spent £400m on machines and preparing suppliers to build the new Qashqai next year.

But bosses have warned that 10 per cent trade tariffs on the Juke, Qashqai and Leaf models it builds would make the plant unviable.

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Europe chairman Gianluca de Ficchy told a news conference at the plant in October 2019: ‘If a no-deal scenario means the sudden application of WTO tariffs, we know in that case our business model won’t be sustainable in the future.

‘Our industry works with lower margins and if we are in a situation in which tomorrow we have to apply 10% export duties to 70 per cent of our production, the entire business model for Nissan Europe will be in jeopardy.’

In several interviews since then, global chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta has maintained that remained the case.

The PA News agency reported a Nissan source as saying: ‘We have been planning the whole time on the basis that there will be a deal.

‘Look at the money we are putting into the new Qashqai – we are already in trial production for it.

‘There’s no Plan B.

‘We have already spent the best part of £400m on all the machines and tooling the suppliers, reconfiguring the line for the car.’

The plant is in Labour MP Sharon Hodgson’s Washington and Sunderland West constituency.

She said: ‘It has always been clear that a no-deal Brexit would be devastating for the automotive industry in the UK, and Nissan, who have a manufacturing plant in my constituency, will be no exception to this rule and Nissan have been vocal on this point themselves.

‘The government must take securing a deal seriously.

‘We are just weeks away from the end of the transition period and manufacturers still have no certainty or clarity of what will be expected from them on 1st January.’

The plant will shut down for Christmas from December 19, reopening on January 4.

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