Toyota Motor Corp. will broaden exports of U.S.-built vehicles by shipping Venza wagons produced in Kentucky to China this year, generating added revenue for the carmaker's U.S. operations.

Details of the shipments to China will be announced soon, said company spokesman Javier Moreno, without elaborating.

Those exports "further solidify our U.S. manufacturing base," Shigeki Terashi, COO of Toyota Motor North America, said in a statement.

Toyota said it sent more than 124,000 U.S.-built autos to global markets in 2012, up 45 percent from a year earlier.

Japan's Nikkei newspaper reported Tuesday that Toyota will export several thousand Venzas to China annually, citing no one. Moreno couldn't immediately confirm those details.