re: Trump calls out Toyota

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you are one of those 60 percent of Trumpkins that actually believed the unemployment rate went up under Obama.

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Demonstrating you've not a clue as to how insider trading actually works

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Nothing like big government focusing on the auto industry's desire to save money instead of its own massive mountain of regulations that discourage companies from operating in the US in the first place.

This strongarm tactic is bullshite.

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Can you post some details or links,

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Variations in consumer tastes alone can't possibly account for differences of that magnitude, even though Asian consumers tend to buy smaller cars than Americans do, critics of U.S. trade policy say. Nor do differences in U.S. and Asian quality levels, when there are any.

While Korea and Japan no longer directly restrict U.S. imports, they do put up barriers to them, said Chris Vitale, president of a Michigan-based group, FairImage.org, which promotes open trade in the auto industry.

"For all intents and purposes, the Japanese market is closed to everyone," Vitale said. "No one gets a foothold."

Japan and Korea don't sell many cars to each other either, as you might expect from two automotive giants facing each other across the Sea of Japan like wary sumo wrestlers.

Korea sold 502 cars to Japan last year. One was a Kia and 501 were Hyundais, according to the Japanese importer group. Japanese automakers did somewhat better in Korea, selling about 21,000 vehicles there, out of a 1 million-plus market.
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The Mustang was a special object of fascination for Japanese consumers, too. "A lot of people saved up money to buy a Mustang GT, and then paid cash for it," the former quality manager for Ford's Dearborn Assembly Plant said.

Whitehouse was on the front lines of Ford's efforts to push its imports through a tough inspection gauntlet in Japan, making 13 trips to that country in the 1990s and early this decade.

The audit process was brutal, he recalls. Inspectors would check off every defect, even if it were well within generally accepted tolerance, Whitehouse said.

"They gun-sighted everything with magnifying glasses and flashlights to see if it had to be repaired," he said. Then Ford teams would correct them, often at great expense. The expense drove up the price of the cars for Japanese consumers.

Strangely enough, Ford of Japan itself hired the inspectors who put U.S.-made cars through the wringer, turning the local subsidiary into Whitehouse's chief antagonist. In addition, Japanese government auditors checked the inspectors' work at regular intervals, Whitehouse said.

The auditors were even tough on vehicles that Ford had given special prepping for the Japanese market, Whitehouse said.

He said he had some of Japan's top U.S. sellers dismantled and inspected in the U.S. and then compared them to Ford models during that period.

"The vehicles we were sending to Japan were superior to the vehicles the U.S was getting back from Japan," he said. "I don't think it was the customers who had problem with our products."

No amount of argument could persuade Ford of Japan's Japanese executives to relax the standards, he said. They evidently considered it their mission to block vehicles with the smallest, most inconsequential defects, he said.

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You're right. Japanese meddling has hurt ours. Trump is for fair trade. Tax ours, we'll tax yours.

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FALSE!

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If Japan engages in fair trade, our economy will benefit.

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Japanese car manufacturers would be less hurt by a tariff on Mexican goods than US car manufacturers.

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"fair trade" is hope and change bullshite. Governments don't do "fair" and nothing regulated by the state can be simultaneously regulated and fair for all parties. You sound like a SJW.

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6. Regardless of the above, the more we accede to the fair traders' shrill demands, the more we wound ourselves. Our headlong rush to protectionism throughout the 1980s (President Reagan's heartfelt free-trade rhetoric notwithstanding) now costs us about $1,200 per family per year. Moreover, the more policy-makers try to "help," the more they hinder. Restrictions on the import of certain Japanese electronic components, for example, have ended up making America's gem, our computer industry, less competitive and have led computer companies to ship production out of the United States! These sorts of unintended consequences are not "anecdotes"—they are partisan trade policy's norm.

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