Posted on 11/18/2016 1:40:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Bill Fords phone call is the latest move by a business leader to thaw tension after Trumps comments on trade
One of the U.S. auto industrys best-known figures has extended an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump by informing him the car maker wont move a small amount of production to Mexico, the latest effort by a business leader to thaw tension stemming from the incoming administrations position on key issues, including global trade.
Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford and chairman of Ford Motor Co., called Mr. Trump on Thursday to tell him the company was reversing course on a plan to eventually relocate Lincoln sport-utility production from Kentucky to a factory south of the U.S. border. The auto maker is sticking with its $1.6 billion construction of a new small-car plant in Mexico, but is signaling confidence in its ability to work with Mr. Trump on making U.S. manufacturing more attractive to multinational companies.
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I agree.
Everyone of Ford Trucks and Cars that are built in Met-E-co will have
a tariff. Bill Ford can build as many as he wants to in Mexico.
He just won’t sell many in the US.
Maybe Arab nations will buy them.
Well did you you vote for that tariff talking troglodyte Donald Trump?
of course
He is savy, you are ot
Ford is moving Focus production to Mexico. Wayne Assembly, the plant in Michigan that makes it is being re-tooled for the new Ford Ranger.
I guess that tariff loving Trump is not savvy?
LOL. What a joke Free Traitor scum are.
who are you talking about? your ignorance is an embarassment to Free Republic
I am for tariff. Trump is for tariffs. I guess you are not. Free Traitor scum are the embarrassment to decent patriotic Americans. Buzz off.
To be clear, Lincoln has sold 20,000 MKCs so far this year versus 260,000 of the Ford Escape built on the same lines.
A couple years ago, Ford was planning to move MKC production to make room for more Escapes. Since then, demand for the Escape has flattened and more capacity for them is not needed. The Escape/MKC lines are actually getting an extra two weeks shutdown this fall because of too much inventory.
Trump still deserves credit for Ford running scared enough to make a public relations effort.
Your paleo isolationist views disqualify you as patriotic
Free Traitor scum wads are unAmerican pieces of dog caca. They are a cynical hate America first bunch that lost big league and need to sit down and shut up.
I want the whole enchilada.
Leni
Smiling at those companies suddenly changing course so very quickly.
Pickup trucks made of beer cans not working out so well?
Lol. Your Spot on.
I voted for Trump
Please provide us proof that the term Free-Traitor is actually trade marked and not a figment of your ignorant malicious lying mind
If you voted for Trump then you went against your religious and wrong headed free trade beliefs. You are a hypocrite.
No, I am wise and know that much of what Trump has promised with regard to global business is just rhetoric. I understand business on a world scale and you obviously do not. Living under a rock prevents a broad view of reality.
You should emerge and travel around some to glimpse reality that is hidden by the rock
You know what? Those insults you throw around that because somebody doesn't buy into your Marxist Free Trade religion makes them some kind of hick hay seed is why you guys are hated so much.
PS: US Navy 1982 - 1986 Visited over 50 countries in that 4 years. I've seen the hell that is the third world up close. That is what Free Traitors want for the USA.
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