Re: Consider buying American!

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:47:56 GMT, Jeff <kidsdoc2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>Gordon McGrew wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:53:51 GMT, Jeff <kidsdoc2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>> 
>>> z wrote:
>>>> On Feb 12, 9:09 am, Jeff <kidsdoc2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> <...>
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>>>> why do we include canada as 'domestic'? not that i have anything
>>>> against canada, god knows, but if we're going to be jingoistic, let's
>>>> be jingoistic.
>>> Because that is the way they are re****ted on the content stickers on
the 
>>> cars when they are sold. The domestic content on the stickers includes

>>> both US and Canada. It has to do with a treaty between the US and
Canada.
>> 
>> Which is a product of the (formerly Big) 3.  They wanted the freedom
>> to build cars in Canada and still be able to distinguish themselves
>> from the "fern" manufacturers.  A stroke of the legislative pen and
>> voilla, Canada is domestic.
>
>It's a treaty. It took a lot more than a stroke of the pen.

OK, the strokes of two pens.

The Automotive Products Trade Agreement, commonly known as the Auto
Pact or APTA, was an im****tant trade agreement between Canada and the
United States. It was signed by Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and
President Lyndon B. Johnson in January of 1965.[1]

It removed tariffs on cars, trucks, buses, tires, and automotive parts
between the two country's, greatly benefiting the large American car
makers. In exchange the big three car makers (General Motors, Ford,
and Chrysler) agreed that automobile production in Canada would not
fall below 1964 levels and that for every five new cars sold in
Canada, three new ones would be made there.

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>The vast majority of the content from Michigan 3 cars comes from the US.

Impossible to tell.  You can get the percentage of domestic content on
any given model.  You cannot get the percentage of US content.
"Domestic" built cars generally have a domestic content of 60 - 90%.
Honda ranges 55 - 70%, Toyota 60 - 85%, Ford 60 - 95%, GM 50 - 90%
Chrysler 69 - 85%.  

<http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-03-21-car-content-chart_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip>

>Most of the Michigan 3 plants that produce cars for the US are in the US.
>
>Jeff