US-China Trade "Truce--?

you do realize a keyboard weigh around few oz, and its 1/1000 size of auto right? iPhone are weight/size are even less
beside you got mexico and Canada making them

here is how much US import auto from china

http://www.worldstopexports.com/cars-imports-by-country/

china import $13B from US, US import $1B from china, we mostly import from mexico/Canada.

 

At some point in the past ypu could have said the same thing about keyboards as you are saying about cars now

China intends to put American car companies out of business

Thats how mercantilism works

 

how? did you see Chinese brand car driving on US street or Toyotas? fact is china buy more US auto then they sell to US. if you want prove otherwise, insert links

 

You think that American workers will have jobs if there is no competition? GM is closing factories because they are not profitable.
They are positioning themselves for the future, which includes SUV production. electric cars, and robotics to produce them. High tariffs and the high price of U.S raw materials are forcing them to move their manufacturing elsewhere so that they can build a competitive product like Harley, Carrier, Ford, Chrysler, etc. have already done.

 

If GM only wants to build SUVs, and electric cars then build them in America using American workers

What so difficult about that to understand?

 

The cost to manufacture many products in the EU is lower than in the U.S. If everything that we need is made here, the costs would rise due to the lack of competition and our companies would be forced to move or close as began to happen in the 1970's.

 

I just explained why. The higher costs will render them unprofitable if history is any indication.

 

Seems that foriegn car makers have no problems coming to this country to make cars to sell to the US consumer.

 

High tariffs and high cost of raw materials will take their toll on those companies also.

 

Higher costs for GM than other manufacturers building cars in America?

I dont think so

 

Quite so

But not GM

That sounds like a management problem that wont be solved by defecting to china

 

It will affect all of them and already is as Mercedes and BMW are rethinking their plans for a plant in the U.S.

 

Thats politics and Hate Trumpism

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/05/no-...te-house-backpedals-automakers-move-jobs.html

 

It's politics that they are rethinking their business strategy?

 

Well sure

Mercedes and BMW are inferior to the the German government and EU dictatorship

 

You obviously understand much about business, yes? It has nothing to do with government and dictatorship unless government or dictatorship is doing something that will negatively affect its ability to function profitably.

 

Shop at the dollar stores much? The vast majority of their customer base can't afford to "kick the habit" of shopping there. Unless you've got some plan to drastically raise the incomes of the lower 50 to 60% of the country, talking about "kicking the habit" of buying Chinese manufactured products is just so much hyperbole.

 

German companies are subject to pressure from the german government

 

In what nefarious ways?

 

I would not call it nefarious

But there is a symotiotic relationship between the two

 

You mean that the union and the government sit on the board of directors?

 

Does it?

If so I would not be surprised

 

That's the way it is with corporations in Germany. I have worked with VW for 25 years.

 

China has done that.

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/...ighted-mean-all-products-percent-wb-data.html