[Alberta's Child]

Read the article again. They're not referring to lower labor costs and fewer tariffs for exports from Mexico to the U.S. -- they're talking about lower labor costs and fewer tariffs for exports from Mexico to Europe. This has nothing to do with NAFTA at all, and would be taking place even if the U.S. had no trade agreements with any other country in the world.

I think this is going to be a sobering reality-check for Americans. The sad truth is that we are diminishing considerably on the world stage. One indication of this is that more and more countries are conducting business with each other without giving so much as a flaming sh!t about conducting business with the U.S.

[Will88]

Read the article again.

Lol, you read it again.

Two-thirds of cars made in Mexico are shipped to the United States.

And a good portion of that remaining third probably goes to Canada, from which auto plants have also been relocated to Mexico.

The part about exporting from Mexico to Europe just disoriented you. The main reason to locate in Mexico is to export to the US and Canada.

[dennisw]

Read the article again. They're not referring to lower labor costs and fewer tariffs for exports from Mexico to the U.S. -- they're talking about lower labor costs and fewer tariffs for exports from Mexico to Europe. This has nothing to do with NAFTA at all, and would be taking place even if the U.S. had no trade agreements with any other country in the world.

The article say flat out that 2/3 of Mexican automobile production goes to the USA. We already know that NAFTA makes this possible with low or zero tariffs

"A U.S.-built Chevrolet Sonic subcompact costs about $700 more to make than a comparable Mexican-built Ford Fiesta, McAlinden says. That's even with a labor agreement at the Sonic factory in Michigan that allows 40 percent of the workers to be paid lower wages than longtime union employees."

$700 aint much. Slap on $1000 in tariffs and reduce income taxes by the amount that all new tariffs bring into the US Treasury. A no brainer

[Mariner]

" are conducting business with each other without giving so much as a flaming sh!t about conducting business with the U.S."

The world will walk away from the largest market in the world?

Probably not.