Does the US government subsidise manufacturers? Do they impose heavy
import tariffs to protect local manufacturing?
Are these just assembly plants, relying wholly on imported components?
Down Under, up until fairly recently the government subsidised the car
industry (for some reason Ford couldn't seem to keep it running even
then), and when the current 'conservative' government pulled the plug on
funding for General Motors-Holden, they are closing up shop also -
taking down the many small businesses that supply them.
Local appliance manufacturers like Simpson and Email (belongs to
Electrolux) have been consolidating, and then closing local plants and
importing many of their product lines.
The way I understand it (I'm not an economist so grab the salt ;) ),
relatively low tariff protections still apply to cars here. Under the
(mostly one-way) "Free Trade Agreements" the protections have been
ramped down over the last 20-ish years, and will soon be gone.
davidt
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:33:57AM -0400, Chris Crawford wrote:
> I find it fascinating that German and Japanese manufacturers can make
> things in the US, paying their American employees high wages, and still
> make profits when American companies are furiously shipping every job they
> can overseas because they claim that they cannot make money paying living
> wages (or even the starvation level Minimum Wage in the US).
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> On 8/16/14 12:15 AM, "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >On 8/15/2014 8:25 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> >>> While building our retirement home about 5 years ago, we specific GE
> >>> Monogram series appliances and were shocked when they arrived and we
> >>>discovered
> >>> they were all made in China. Would probably specified high end
> >>>European or
> >>> some other choice. Bill Barber
> >> The German companies do a substantial amount of American manufacturing.
> >
> >> Toyotas, Hondas, BMWs ...
> >
> >Home Made Moose
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