[Cronos]

As to the Big Three: they made a BIG SHOW of telling us that PRC would allow them to import 250,000 cars from US to PRC in 2004. 250,000. Wow. US market is 18 million cars/trucks. Yeah. Toothpaste and soap will redound to the HUGE benefit of US workers....

Ok, the PRC buys 250,000 cars from us in 2004. How many did they buy from us in 2000? 1000? 2000? That's phenomenal growth.

By 2010, they'll buy millions of cars from us. See the big picture, the long term view.

Toothpaste and soap -- you'rethe one who asked for what consumer goods are sold by American companies. What about Pepsico? our companies dominate the consumer goods markets there because we have quality. They know the cheap Chinese cr** made there ain't safe so they buy American. And they'll buy even more American as time goes by -- the statistics show a greater spending year on year. Japan's recession is fading BECAUSE CHINESE are buyign Japanese goods. Ditto for the US, this WILL happen as China pulls itself up (hopefully it'll become a democracy like India, otherwise everything goes bust...

[ninenot]

"...[PRC] citizens will buy MILLIONS of US cars in 2010..."

BWAAAAAAAHAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAA.

Get a calculator before you post again.

[phil_will1]

"Ok, the PRC buys 250,000 cars from us in 2004. How many did they buy from us in 2000? 1000? 2000? That's phenomenal growth.

By 2010, they'll buy millions of cars from us. See the big picture, the long term view."

Ok, lets look a little closer at the long term view. Say the chinese are buying millions of cars in a few years that have Ford or GM logos on them. Its pretty unlikely that those cars will be manufactured in the US and shipped around the world, isn't it? Isn't it far more likely that Ford and GM will open up manufacturing operations in China, or at least somewhere a lot closer to them than we are?

How does this help the US economy, other than by adding to GM's and Ford's corporate profits? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just trying to understand your point.

[XBob]

73- where are youall getting this crap from:

"As to the Big Three: they made a BIG SHOW of telling us that PRC would allow them to import 250,000 cars from US to PRC in 2004. 250,000. Wow. US market is 18 million cars/trucks. Yeah. Toothpaste and soap will redound to the HUGE benefit of US workers....
Ok, the PRC buys 250,000 cars from us in 2004. How many did they buy from us in 2000? 1000? 2000? That's phenomenal growth.
By 2010, they'll buy millions of cars from us. See the big picture, the long term view."

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http://www.bizasia.com/trade_/gnnkx/us_auto_companies_eye_china.htm

Last year, the total Chinese market for vehicles was 1.8 million units, with only 20,000 units being imported. This is the result of an import tariff that is as high as 100% on completely built vehicles. Under the WTO agreement the tariff will fall to 25% in six years, which the US industry views as quite fair.