TOKYO, April 5 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor ( NSANF ) is

considering shifting some domestic production of U.S.-bound

vehicles to the U.S., the Nikkei reported on Saturday, as

President Donald Trump ramps up trade tariffs on nations

worldwide.

As early as this summer, Nissan ( NSANF ) plans to reduce production

at its Fukuoka factory in western Japan and shift some

manufacturing of its Rogue SUV to the United States to mitigate

the impact of Trump's tariffs, the business newspaper said,

without citing the source of its information.

The Japanese automaker's Rogue SUV, a key model in the U.S.

market, is now produced in Fukuoka and the United States, the

report said.

On Thursday, Nissan ( NSANF ) said it would not take new orders from

the U.S. for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs after earlier Trump

tariff announcements, marking, a drastic scale-back of its

operations at a joint venture plant.

The automaker now plans to maintain two shifts of production

of the Rogue at its Smyrna, Tennessee, plant after announcing in

January it would end one of the two shifts this month.

Nissan ( NSANF ) sold about 920,000 vehicles in the U.S. last year, of

which about 16% were exported from Japan, the Nikkei said,

adding the planned production shift could hit local suppliers'

businesses.