Lou Dobbs has a good segment tonight on this.
The Chinese aren’t dumb, but we sure are. They’ve just signed on as a partner of NAFTA by locating in Mexico.
Will the same team of quality control professionals overseeing the dog and cat food production be in charge?
Globalism strikes again!
The proponents of Free Trade at Any Cost have promised jobs and prosperity from a new customer base in these third-world nations. But the results speak for themselves, and they aren’t encouraging.
From last year but still relevant:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20060321-0919-mexico-pacificports.html
Mexico, top private interests look to revamp Pacific ports south of the border
By Will Weissert
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9:19 a.m. March 21, 2006
Associated Press
Workers use a huge cargo crane to unload a container vessel docked at the Ensenada International Terminal port facility in Ensenada, Mexico.
MEXICO CITY – Mexico and major shipping interests are bolstering Pacific ports south of the border, hoping to catch future runoff as an increasing tide of Asian cargo sails toward already clogged ports in California.
Mexican officials in coming weeks plan to study the feasibility of turning Punta Colonet – a sparsely populated, wind-blown bay on the Baja Peninsula 150 miles south of the U.S. border – into a super-port on par with twin facilities at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest western port complex in North America.
Farther south, Hutchison Port Holdings, the world’s largest independent port operator, plans to pump about $200 million into expanding container ship capacity at Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico’s deepest port.
“We are ready. The port is ready. The infrastructure is ready for anything shipping companies need,” said Hector Carranza, business director for the port at Lazaro Cardenas.
Private companies have approached ports in this country looking for backup routes in case of work stoppages in California. A dispute between shipping lines and dock workers led to a shutdown of all major western U.S. ports in 2003, sending thousands of container ships steaming south.
“The world’s biggest retailers want to have more options open,” said David Eaten, a spokesman for Kansas City Southern de Mexico, the U.S. railroad that serves Lazaro Cardenas.
Los Angeles-Long Beach handles 40 percent of all the cargo shipped into the United States and 80 percent of U.S. imports from Asia.
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Mexican authorities say lower port fees, as well as jitters about terrorist threats on U.S. soil – newly fueled by controversy over a plan where a state-owned United Arab Emirates company would take over East Coast ports – may also push business their way.
Expansions at Lazaro Cardenas are focused on goods bound for the Mexican market. But with the amount of cargo steaming into the American West Coast expected to outpace the capacity of ports there in coming years, Mexico wants to be ready for the surplus.
Lazaro Cardenas’ “business model is not to take business away from the U.S. West Coast ports but rather to absorb a significant percentage of projected growth,” Kansas City Southern said in a statement prepared for this story.
Officials in Kansas City want to build a $3 million inland border facility staffed by Mexican customs inspectors.
Leaders from both countries are still negotiating the details of the plan, which seeks to allow trucks carrying U.S. goods bound for the Mexican market to be inspected and sealed in Kansas City, then head into Mexico without delays at the border.
Sen Botoxers new American cars, getting ready for mass production.
Great news! Cheap cars! And they’re not built by the communistic unions! Oh, wait....uh, never mind.
Correct me if I am wrong, but haven’t most car plants that were built in Mex closed due to lack of sales. I.e VW Beetle and Chvey Nova? Oh and let us not forget Lionel trains he he, that proved they cannot even build toys let alone the real thing.
The Chinese? You mean the folks selling weapons to the Taliban?
NO THANKS.
Yes, isn’t this nice....not
Saw this here in the San Diego Union Trib. this morning.
TJ has many Japanese, Korean, etc. factories also the VW has been made in MX.
Gee do you think Americans in San Diego can cross the border and work in these factories....not a chance.
Besides the illegals, thousands cross the border each day to work here in San Diego on green cards.
This isn’t about free trade, this is about war footing.
I look at this from Patton’s eyes. “ What a target rich environment Mexico just became,nget Beatle on the phone”
Yep. The Taliban arming Chinese! Our new Cold War opponent!
Will they rig our cars to explore on que?
embarrassing for the mexicans.
they’ve been assembling cars for 40 years,
but they still cannot manufacture one of their own.