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re: United auto workers joins others in the anti NAFTA camp..
Posted on 11/11/16 at 5:55 pm to crazy4lsu
Posted on 11/11/16 at 5:55 pm to crazy4lsu
I've been involved with manufacturing for my whole career (going on 30 years). I've worked with facilities in the US, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and China and I will be the first one to say that it will be VERY difficult to bring manufacturing back to the US. The problem isn't so much with the actual manufacturing aspect, but with the SUPPLY CHAIN. A vast majority of components that go into any product are manufactured outside the US. In order to establish manufacturing here, parts have to be imported from overseas, which becomes cost prohibitive. It will take years to re-establish a local supply chain that would make it cost effective to manufacture in the US again.
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Posted on 11/11/16 at 5:56 pm to 1984Tiger
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It will take years to re-establish a local supply chain that would make it cost effective to manufacture in the US again.
In addition to the years it will take to renegotiate trade deals.
Posted on 11/11/16 at 6:12 pm to 1984Tiger
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The problem isn't so much with the actual manufacturing aspect, but with the SUPPLY CHAIN. A vast majority of components that go into any product are manufactured outside the US. In order to establish manufacturing here, parts have to be imported from overseas, which becomes cost prohibitive. It will take years to re-establish a local supply chain that would make it cost effective to manufacture in the US again.
Low energy cuck talk.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 4:26 am to 1984Tiger
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I will be the first one to say that it will be VERY difficult to bring manufacturing back to the US.
Quit looking at it as a short term fix. Remember, it takes a helluva lot longer to build a house than it does to tear it down. Patience my friend.
Posted on 11/12/16 at 4:39 am to 1984Tiger
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The problem isn't so much with the actual manufacturing aspect, but with the SUPPLY CHAIN. A vast majority of components that go into any product are manufactured outside the US. In order to establish manufacturing here, parts have to be imported from overseas, which becomes cost prohibitive. It will take years to re-establish a local supply chain that would make it cost effective to manufacture in the US again.
And yet foreign manufacturers like Kia (in West Point, GA) are able to cluster their suppliers around that massive plant in pretty short order.
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