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Year-to-Date Total Trade
Year-to-Date Exports
Year-to-Date Imports
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One might notice that NAFTA did not have anything to do with the movement of "jobs" from the United States to Mexico or anywhere else. Also, one might notice that, for this 1/3 of a year's summary, Canada and Mexico with a combined populations of fewer than 160,000,.000 population far exceed Red China both as sellers to the United States and as buyer from the United States.
Mexico in 1990 imported less than 9,000,000,000 USD in a year from the United States. Now, total exports to Mexico from the American industrial and commercial base is running at a 200,000,000.000 (two hundred billion per annum)....and no pinko, protectionist, or labourite wants to remind people that most of Mexico's advantage in terms of balance of trade comes from American owned farm exports out of Mexico to the United States of everything from mangoes, avocados, kiwi fruit, tomatoes, and things like Tuna. They also have become the fourth or fifth largest fabricator (not assembly, but total fabrication) of motor cars and trucks, some of which is exported to Canada and the United States. They also now import things like Cadillacs and Lincolns.
Just recently, ground was broken for a 1,500,000,000 USD Kia Plant in Monterrey, bringing the total number of manufacturies of engines, autos, and automotive pertinences to well over 500. And unlike Red China, the Canadian and Mexican operators all comply with copyright and intellectual property rights understandings.
Finally, long before NAFTA, scores and scores of American operations had set up manufacturing facilities in Mexico, including but not limited to companies such as John Deere, General Electric, General Motors, Zenith, and many, many others. It just did not make sense to pay a dolt 43 dollars an hour in 1983 to bolt bumpers on crookedly to a boatcar. Zenith spun out a multi-million dollar ad-campaign about how they said "Phooey. The idea that the American worker is slothful and inefficient is wrong. We have the best employees in the world and blah, blah, blah....". Less than six months after that advertising campaign Zenith closed down and set up their operations principally in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Main reason? They were truthful. About 40% of the reason was for wage differences and 60% was because of better quality work, quicker training time, and labour unions that had been set free from government control dating back to the 1920s.
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None of this is really the absolute reason for this submission to the OROG community. It is actually to point out that the NAFTA agreement has been damned and kicked around by every demagogue group imaginable....especially labour unions. All of that is bilge. Red China is the only serious abuser of trade and copyright and level field understandings....even Viet Nam complies with 95% of its quality and copyright promises.
Almost all Americans and almost all Mexicans and Canadians have benefitted in concrete terms due to our three way free trade agreement. Our trade with the two partners with only 160 million people essentially dwarfs the amount of trade with the "Great Dragon Monster" with 1,300 million people. Check the graphs.
Check this....at the Toyota Plant in San Antonio, Republic of Texas. Do you all want the UAW or do you want to continue with an on-campus employee association? Overwhelming majority declares in favour of the employee association. In the maquiladoras in Mexico, the overwhelming majority of employees prefer employee associations, White Unions, and the like over the old once government required and sponsored Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos (Confederation of Mexican Labourers - (CTM), once one-third of the government party...the Jurassic Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).
Free people must, of necessity, hate labour unions in these days. When they stopped being Artesan Masters' Guilds they began to lose social, cultural, and economic value for the common man.
One last thing is that the figures of visits, shopping, and short vacation stays (15 days or less), daily purchases by Mexicans and Americans on each other's side of the border, as in tourism or shopping, are not included in these figures....but it amounts to about 1,000,000,000 USD per day. Just this one figure dwarfs all the cartels put together by 100 times over.
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THE SINGLE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THIS NEW TRADE DEAL NEGOTIATED BY OBAMA IS THAT IT WAS APPARENTLY WRITTEN BY VALERIE JARRETT IN A CLOSET IN SOME CRACKHOUSE IN BALTIMORE. NO ONE KNOWS PRECISELY WHAT WAS IN THE OPUS. LIKE THE OBAMA SOCIALISED MEDICINE INTIATIVE (OSMI), WE SHALL HAVE TO VOTE FOR IT IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHAT IS IN IT. HOW MANY DEALY-WEALIES ARE IN THE MIX THAT WERE NEGOTIATED BY THE CLINTON CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY PROGRAMME (CCCP)? WE MIGHT NEVER KNOW.
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Please review these above figures. Remember that the stats represent only one-third of a year.....and they are fairly accurate. Once again thanks you for your time, patience, and patronage.
El Gringo Viejo
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