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| NAFTA an exploited doorway into coveted U.S. market. Asian companies invested in Mexico, Canada as work around |
| 2018-03-04 |
| [ConservativeTreehouse] President Trump will pull the U.S. out of NAFTA and direct the U.S. Trade Representative to engage in bilateral trade deals with Canada and Mexico individually. There is no other possible alternative and here’s why. First, the essential problem with NAFTA was an evolution over time. In its current form NAFTA became an exploited doorway into the coveted U.S. market. Asian economic interests, large multinational corporations, invested in Mexico and Canada as a way to work around any direct trade deals with the U.S. By shipping parts to Mexico and/or Canada; and by deploying satellite manufacturing and assembly facilities in Canada and/or Mexico; China, Asia and to a lesser extent EU corporations exploited a loophole. Through a process of building, assembling or manufacturing their products in Mexico/Canada those foreign corporations can skirt U.S. trade tariffs and direct U.S. trade agreements. The finished foreign products entered the U.S. under NAFTA rules. Why deal with the U.S. when you can just deal with Mexico, and use NAFTA rules to ship your product directly into the U.S. market? This exploitative approach, a backdoor to the U.S. market, was the primary reason for massive foreign investment in Canada and Mexico; it was also the primary reason why candidate Donald Trump, now President Donald Trump, wanted to shut down that loophole and renegotiate NAFTA. This loophole was the primary reason for U.S. manufacturers to relocate operations to Mexico. Corporations within the U.S. Auto-Sector could enhance profits by building in Mexico or Canada using parts imported from Asia/China. The labor factor was not as big a part of the overall cost consideration as cheaper parts and imported raw materials. |
| Posted by:Herb McCoy7309 |
| #3 The whole EPA / carbon tax regime combined with "free trade" is basically a method to "preferentially" deindustrialize the US and pretend they're saving the planet while we get subjugated to the likes of Putin and Xi Jinping. At the moment, there's not really such a thing as Communism or Capitalism as distinct entities. There's only Competent Merchantilism and Incompetent Merchantilism. Western Leftism is simply a way to keep us in the latter category. So to a lesser extent is the Republican party. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-03-04 12:42 |
| #2 How else could domestic polluters become EPA friendly? Why, by by shifting Carbon Credits from their unregulated overborder facilities. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-04 01:57 |
| #1 If that had helped Mexico become first world it would have been worth it, but instead it helped a number of Mexican elites become super-wealthy while the rest continued in poverty. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-04 01:17 |