>From what i read this morning the goal is to diversify their partners so not to depend on one source... Germany and other European countries are offering Mexico trade deals aggressively. I have no confidence in Trump's knowledge of NAFTA and foreign trade, except maybe on how get his cheap labor clothing line produced. Hopefully this guy (quoting Bernie) will hire competent folks and not his lackey brown nosing group. Ford is going ahead with expansion into Mexico without cutting US jobs. These are business decisions not political ones. BTW... You Canopy guys ever know where most of that line was manufactured?
On Nov 16, 2016 7:28 AM, "Lewis Bergman" <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote: > The flaw in all plans to develop "better" trading partners than the US is > the as a nation we consume more crap of every kind than anyone. It is > difficult to develop enough relationships to replace that if not > impossible. There are nations with similiar transportation costs to major > consumers that have an even cheaper labor rate than Mexico. It was only a > few years ago Mexico was whining about Vietnam and its labor rates. > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:21 AM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> What do they look like when it is frigid? >> >> *From:* Jaime Solorza >> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 15, 2016 7:57 PM >> *To:* Animal Farm >> *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT.. Mexico not waiting with folded arms >> >> >> Ex President Fox spearheading a group to open trade with more countries >> and stop depending on US. They are going into Arab countries, India and >> South America... Right now 85% of their imports are from US.. This shift to >> importing from other than US is going to impact us for sure. He is quoting >> Abe Lincoln. He is much more worldly and intelligent than elected dude. >> Plus their weather girls are hotter. >> >
