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Tariffs and jobs: How Trinidad’s auto industry thrived before its decline

How tariffs and jobs built—and broke—Trinidad’s auto industry.

In the 1970s, Trinidad and Tobago embarked on an ambitious experiment to grow its manufacturing sector through protective tariffs and import-substitution policies. At the heart of this effort were various automobile assembly plants, including Nissan-Neal & Massy at Wallerfield, Toyota-Amar at Las Lomas, Mitsubishi-HE Robinson at Santa Rosa, and Mazda-Southern …

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