FCA Proposes a Merger with Renault

GM and a few others decided to build a factory in Thailand for truck production after TAFTA was signed. If it weren't signed and Australia had higher tariffs on their utes, then that would have forced these companies to build their trucks in Australia with

Not one factory, factories and the Factoriy for GM existed before the TAFTA was signed.
No Midsize Pickups were ever built in Australia. Higher Tariffs would have done little for imports of Pickups from Thailand, not affected either way. Thailand became the Detriot of Asia as a result economies of scale worked in their favour