There is for import duties (Canada is excepted under the Auto Pact). -Adam
Paul Stenquist wrote: > There is no domestic content requirement for cars sold in the U.S. > Plenty of cars with no domestic content are sold here. > paul > On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:11 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> Not just shipping costs, domestic content requirements, (for the US >> Mexico and Canada), and labor costs, (non union labor is much less >> expensive in the US than it is in Europe. Do you guys even have non >> union labor? >> >> John Francis wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:14:10PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>>> Cotty wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 9/2/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> It's built by BMW and designed by BMW. Just by them in England. >>>>>> MINI is >>>>>> just a BMW nameplate and BMW builds and designs in many places >>>>>> (including the US). >>>>>> >>>>> That's a computer talking. The people building the mini are mostly >>>>> recruited and live locally. They are the same people who were >>>>> building >>>>> rover cars, and they are Brits. They wear overalls with BMW >>>>> logos and >>>>> they get paychecks with money from German banks. The cars are >>>>> made by >>>>> Brits. I've seen it. >>>>> >>>> And if you buy a BMW X-Series, it was made in Georgia, USA. So? >>>> Still a >>>> BMW factory and BMW design team. >>>> >>> The MINI is as much a BMW as the K10D is a Hoya camera. >>> >>> And while BMW might build X-Series cars in Georgia (and Z4s in N. >>> Carolina, >>> I believe) they were still designed in Germany; the BMW plants in >>> the USA >>> are just offshore manufacturing locations to save shipping costs. >>> Not the >>> same thing at all. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> >> The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. >> -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
