IF American car companies made the best cars and trucks on the market, the
foreign car companies wouldn't be so popular in North America.

Really simple....


"tizak" <tizak_4@yahoo. com> wrote in message
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> As free traders are we being taken for suckers, with the US and
> Canadian government acquiescing with countries actively acting in bad
> faith and trading unfairly.
>
> This is from a newspaper article (
> http://www.canada.com/topics/news/na...3037a5&k=21038
> )
>
> Here is the take away from this article...
>
> "Hargrove said four million vehicles were shipped into North America
> last year, many from countries that don't allow foreign cars to be
> sold in their markets.
>
> He took special aim at Japan for tariff and other barriers.
>
> "One story is that if you buy an import, right away your income tax is
> audited," Hargrove said, adding that inspection processes are another
> way foreign vehicles are kept out of Japan."
>
> It is bad enough that the US guarantees their security at great cost
> while they build and ship cars from their countries (Japan, Korea
> specifically) while undermining the North American economy by blocking
> access to their markets.
>
> Where does fair trade become part of the purchasing decision?
>