Unless the supplier is foreign?
With the exception of electronics, all parts are made here in the U.S.......The auto companies demands for "on time" parts delivery designed to eliminate storage costs makes it impossible to manufacture parts overseas then ship them to the U.S. so they arrive in their respective plants for same day assembly.
As I said, my company supplied body parts to Ford, the Thunderbird doors being a prime example. We made approximately 60,000 of them before Ford stopped production of that model. There is no way those could have been produced overseas then shipped back to the United States then put on trains and delivered to their plant. It just doesn't happen.
The biggest complaint by the UAW and one that has never been fully revealed by the MSM, is their claim that THEIR work is being outsourced to foreign countries. That's a bogus claim and I will use Canada as an example.
The current trade agreement our auto companies have with Canada is that for every automobile sold there, it must be made there.......Yet the UAW considers that "outsourcing". Without that trade agreement, there would be no American cars sold in Canada.........period. But then again, that's the demand by the CAW, Canadian Auto Workers......
The claims by the UAW that their cars are being manufactured overseas is true but what they don't tell you and the MSM fails to tell you is that those foreign made US cars are being sold overseas, not here.
How many Fords or Chryslers on the road today have you seen that were made in Europe or Mexico or wherever?