Trans Pacific Partnership and the US Automobile Business

[Mark Gregory]

Could someone tell me how this trade agreement is going to affect the USA car manufacturing business . In Canada they figure 10,000 automotive jobs might be lost .

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/things-to-know-about-how-tpp-could-affect-canada-s-auto-industry-1.2594534

[Guest AlCapone]

It could be the downfall of the prime minister in Canada. It is being negotiated while parliament is in recess in the middle of an election. It has been suggested that it will eliminate thousands of jobs in the automotive, dairy and manufacturing sectors! Just what we don't need! Wayne

[Guest Bob Call]

Remember back in the late 60's when the politicians were telling us that the U.S. needed to go metric so that other countries would buy more U.S. cars if they were metric?  Well the result of going metric in the auto industry was making foreign made cheap labor metric parts became a bigger and bigger percentage of U.S. assembled cars. The days of the 100% U.S. - Canadian auto are gone and will never be back. The only remainder of U.S. auto dominance is the wheel rim sizes.  Soon we'll be rolling on 711.2's in our Escalde.

[auburnseeker]

Anything being negotiated in secrecy with few details available always spells dirty deal.  If it wasn't they would be toting how good everything was and pointing to exactly how each item is so good.