Toyota Motor Corp. will start producing Yaris subcompacts at a French plant for export to North America next year.
Toyota, which has an assembly plant in Valenciennes in northern France, said it expected to ship 25,000 Yaris cars a year to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico starting in May 2013.
Toyota said this was the first time it was shipping cars to North America from Europe. European auto sales are shrinking amid generally declining economic conditions.
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