Posted on 03/04/2025 3:16:03 PM PST by Miami Rebel
A necessary transition to bring back real manufacturing to the USA and then increase jobs,
This has the added benefit of hopefully reducing those slave labor industries in the other countries.
A very blessed side effect.
“If Linamar has to pay a tariff every time a part crosses an international border, those higher prices will compound, “
But sending the part all over hells creation to be tweaked and added to doesn’t add up at all, right…?
Is this from a Russian troll site? Tell us about you wonderful Lada automobiles.
Blah blah blah. What is going to happen is they are going to figure out how to minimize the movement of incomplete modules across national boundaries. One convoluted example which could not even be found without AI is not necessarily representative of all trade, just that transmissions are going to have to be rethought. No big deal. Ask AI what we should do about it. I think automobile manufacturers are smarter than the people who write news articles.
In the early 80s, I purchased a Mitsubishi Precis on the island of Guam and it was called the Dodge Colt stateside. I drove it around for quite a bit even when I got back to the states and had the clutch replaced I found out that the transmission was a VW transmission. In fact, a number of makes and models were designed to use the VW FWD transmissions.
we wouldn’t be in this situation if our politicians wouldn’t have pushed our country into a “global economy”...
self reliance is what made our country great...
Meanwhile, it is what it is. Disassembling a multinational manufacturing system built over decades would require 10s or 100s of billions in new investment and would dislocate tens of thousands of workers over a multi-year transition.
Could it be done? Sure, but only by crashing our economy.
our country is 36 trillion dollars in debt... our economy is a lie...
Ross Perot was right about that “giant sucking sound”.
yes he was...
Take the Canadian supplier Linamar, for example. Linamar makes transmission modules for vehicles here in the U.S., and making those parts is far more of an international operation than you probably expected. Before Linamar even gets to making any products, it first needs steel to make them with. That means sourcing steel chips and scrap to be processed by a smelter in Pennsylvania. The resulting steel is then sent to Ohio where another company turns it into what's known as a hub. Once the hubs are finished, they're then sent to a factory in Ontario, Canada, along with another part involved in shifting gears that comes from Illinois. Before the module is complete, though, Linamar also imports an aluminum housing made in a foundry it operates in Coahuila, Mexico. Once all the necessary parts are in Ontario, Linamar assembles the module and then sends it back to the Midwest where yet another factory installs it in the transmission. Those transmissions are then sent back to Ontario to be put into various vehicles that will then be sent to the U.S. for sale. If Linamar has to pay a tariff every time a part crosses an international border, those higher prices will compound, driving the cost of just the transmission through the roof. - https://www.jalopnik.com/1803638/car-part-tracking-across-na-trump-tariff-impact/
That is a keeper. Extrapolate that to many more countries. Which is one of the reasons why the isolationism many cry for is not attainable, though lack of tariffs may be blamed,it is the cost of labor, and regulatory compliance and taxes that are major factors.
Jalopnik is laughably left wing. They loved Teslas until Musk started showing how incompetent the Biden Crime family was at virtually everything - and especially anything having to do with real science and engineering. They used to be on ‘car reading’ list. Now, blttttttth!
from the US
then canada
then mexico
then back to canada
that cant be good for global warming
The multinational auto industry is a thing. Deflection by source.
The “home-grown” ideal is a ship that sailed long, long ago.
Those countries have unfair trade practices with the USA.
Trump needs to be explaining those unfair practices, 24-7.
For some unknown reason, he has not been doing that.
i had one
really good car
Jalopnik used to be a good car blog. Lately it has veered more and more towards “Trump is stupid”, and “Look at how bad Elon is”.
A very long distance manufacturing line, that “worked” on some books when the cost of energy was low, and both Canada and Mexico were not adversaries.
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