It was really BS that they made Mexico free of car tariffs, so all the US manufacturers would start assembling their vehicles down there. The US lost auto manufacturing jobs that would have been here, and the build quality of the assembly of the ones coming out of Mexico has mostly been worse. This was a direct result of allowing ford and gm to use cheap foreign labor, while still making all competition more expensive.
Having no tariffs anywhere would be a terrible idea (The US auto paying their employees $30+ an hour shouldn’t have to compete against China paying $2.80/hour). But leaving Mexico out of an import tax so the US can move their plants down there and not have to pay an import tax is corrupt as hell.
It was really BS that they made Mexico free of car tariffs, so all the US manufacturers would start assembling their vehicles down there. The US lost auto manufacturing jobs that would have been here, and the build quality of the assembly of the ones coming out of Mexico has mostly been worse. This was a direct result of allowing ford and gm to use cheap foreign labor, while still making all competition more expensive.
Having no tariffs anywhere would be a terrible idea (The US auto paying their employees $30+ an hour shouldn’t have to compete against China paying $2.80/hour). But leaving Mexico out of an import tax so the US can move their plants down there and not have to pay an import tax is corrupt as hell.