Posted by oldtanker on November 03, 2013 at 22:02:39 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: American ingenutiy posted by Edd in KY on November 03, 2013 at 18:46:08:
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Edd, long before NAFTA was passed Stewart Warner was having their gauges made in Taiwan and packaged in the US. Tonka move all of their small assembling to Mexico before NAFTA. By the late 70's no TV's were made in the US except one and that one was only assembled here, again before NAFTA. I remember as a kid in the early 60's transistor radios coming Japan. Toyota, Datsun (Nissan), Honda and Subaru were all available in the us, before NAFTA, as was VW, MB, and BMW plus more. In the 80's many Americans were yelling at our politicians to raise tariffs on imported goods to preserve US jobs. No one listened. All this before NAFTA was passed. Big point of contention was Japan subsidizing cars and trucks made in Japan to make them cheaper on the American market. People in general wanted that stopped or tariffs raised to bring them in line to what they would have cost without the subsidies. Heck even Platex was in the game, cutting bras in NYC then shipping them off shore to be sewn together then returned to NYC for packaging in the late 70's. Actually in the last 20 years EPA and OSHA rules have done more to move manufacturing off shore than anything else.
The politicians refused to do anything about it because the American consumer was very happy to be buying at lower prices. They were not about to have to defend themselves for making the cost of consumer goods go up. Some companies tried to keep manufacturing here but the consumer would buy a similar product for less that was made overseas. The companies were left no choice but to move those jobs off shore to compete.
Yea, sure NAFTA has increased the US trade deficit but it wasn't law until Jan 1, 1994. We started importing goods that could have been produced in the US long before that. Most people want to blame NAFTA because they are familiar with it. Before NAFTA there was a fair trade agreement with Canada in place.
Heck we been importing electronics, machines, optics, clothing and more sense right after WWII was over, long before NATFA reared it's ugly head.
But if the consumer refused to buy imported products the companies would bring manufacturing back to the US as fast as they could. So bottom line is that jobs moving off shore are more of a consumer driven thing than anything else. Now you and I know that people will never go along with that and will continue to buy whatever is cheaper and makes their money go further.
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