[central_va]

Did it ever occur to you that they moved to Mexico for reasons other than lower labor costs?

It's about labor. When asked the Carrier's CEO couldn't name one tax or regulation that was the cause of the move to Mexico. Dirt cheap 3rd world labor is like crack cocaine to these globalist CEO's.

[Alberta's Child]

On its face, it looks to me as if the labor cost differential would hardly offset the higher costs of transportation and utilities.

But then again, I know better than to presume I know more about someone else's line of business than they do.

[Alberta's Child]

Well, here's an answer that partially explains what's going on with the Ford Focus, at least ...

In 2013 the Focus was the top-selling car model in the world. Ford sold almost 1.1 million of them globally.

Of those, only 241,000 were sold in the U.S.

So why would you expect Ford to produce a certain car model in the U.S. when the U.S. only accounts for about 22% of its global sales for that model?