Mexico overtakes Japan as No. 2 car exporter to U.S.

Thanks to the UAW and NAFTA(Clinton). We employed Americans pay high taxes and increasing more and more while other Americans can't find full time, decent paying jobs. Now we can consume the Mexican labor at no cost reduction to the products! Just increased profits to the automakers.

Mexico, minimal environmental laws, worker safety laws, and peanuts for wages to compete with USA made products.

@MarkG

To blame these shifts on NAFTA, manufacturing in the U.S. was already under stress decades before the treaty, and job losses in that sector are viewed as part of a structural shift in the U.S. economy toward light manufacturing and high-end services.

In the article it doesn't mention the names of the manufacturers of those cars, all major car manufacturers are represented with plants in Mexico, Headline should read, "cars built with cheap labour biggest exporter to the US"here is a link to help put it all in perspective worldwide--http://www.wageindicator.org/main/salary/minimum-wage/mexico

And about 6 years ago we fell into a major recession. The powers in place could have restored US production power again if they chose to. Now we have more people on Public Assistance than ever before. Yet, we are a major consumer of goods. I prefer employed Americans, and Canadians for that matter. We share a similar living standard. Mexico is lightyears away!

Bend over middle class, it's gonna get worse.

MarkG Apr. 11, 2014 - 08:07AM JST I prefer employed Americans, and Canadians for that matter. We share a similar living standard. Mexico is lightyears away!

If anything, Canada has seen the strongest gains among the three NAFTA countries. Canada is the leading exporter of goods to the U.S. and U.S. and Mexican investments in Canada have tripled, and Canada has added close to 5 million new jobs in the last two decades. One of NAFTA's biggest economic effects on U.S.-Canada trade has been to increase bilateral agricultural flows. Canada is the leading importer of U.S. agricultural products, and U.S. agricultural exports to Canada roughly doubled in the last two decades.

Industry analysts had expected Mexico to surpass Japan by the end of the year, but the Mexican Automobile Industry Association (AMIA) says it has happened faster than expected.

“It does not surprise me that they did (overtake Japan), and that number will even get bigger,” Haig Stoddard, industry analyst at Michigan-based WardsAuto Group, told AFP.

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I did not know Japan export cars from Japan to USA. Are Nissan Mada Honda Mexiican corporation? How about Toyota? Toyota invited Mada to Mexico. Is Japan exporting right-sidehandle cars to USA?

sfjp330 - And US is the biggest looser, right? While we are the major consumer! Seems a bit unbalanced here. FizzBit says it right above.

Headline is wrong. It implies Japan has been No2. exporter from Japan (After Canada?) and Mexico became No 2 and Japan became No 3 exporter to USA. What happened to Japanese auto factories in TN and KY? We don;t see small box car right side handle in USA.

Hey MarkG, I've worked for Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems and all you say is sad but true, most workers earn between (US) $300 and $400 monthly, engineers (quality, mechanic, manufacturing, design) earn $550 plus some bonuses, total is about $600. A good paying job in the automotive industry is about $1600, say someone with 3 years of experience on the same job and a master in some technical area, top executives earn about $6000 and the general manager $10k.

All Japanese companies though.

noumen.arete.....Do those savings in production costs as opposed the US or Japan salaries translate into cheaper goods for USA? Not that I see. It translates into increased corporate profit. Certainly it's not trickle down pay. It remains at the top,

noumen.arete.....Do those savings in production costs as opposed the US or Japan salaries translate into cheaper goods for USA? Not that I see. It translates into increased corporate profit. Certainly it's not trickle down pay. It remains at the top,

U.S. and European automakers have also made huge investments in Mexico in recent years.

In US, many blue collar workers lost the jobs are surviving with food vouchers. Their old jobs will never come back to the states. Detroit has become the Ghost town. Ross Perot who was a independent Presidential candidate of 1992 and 1996 predicted NAFTA will make America broke and high unemployment.

His prediction has come true as doom and gloom. Mexico will become post war Japan of North America and their GDP will surpass USA sooner or later. Many unemployed Americans are looking for work in Mexico City thanks to Bill Clinton. Sadly Perot has never become the president and Clinton dishonoured white house with his dirty cigar.

a lot of things have happened over the last decade or so - Nafta, free trade, tax cuts for outsourcing, HI-B Visa's

all put in place to ensure the middle class lose position and wealth.

for a US company to build in mexico and outsource the jobs means lots of tax breaks- for a foreign company it means much less taxes, no unions, less cash to employees.

quite frankly our government does not care if we are all working at mcdonalds - no matter what major party- the business runs the shop now

Japan manufactures a lot of their cars IN America, so it's not surprising that they are exporting less of them to there from Japan.

Many of the comments, while mostly valid, are absolutely misinformed regarding unions. Germany, a country with extremely strong unions, is both strong in terms of growth AND working-class living standards.

The problem isn't unions. Its the parasite 'investor' class demanding an increasingly larger share of the nation's wealth. Germany has some extremely wealthy individuals, but they all reinvest it back directly into Germany.

This reinvestment takes on many forms, including: higher wages, vocational training, lower rental rates, etc.

It is true Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Honda are Japan based auto makers. Not, Mexican corporations.

"Thanks to the UAW and NAFTA(Clinton)" "Sadly Perot has never become the president and Clinton dishonoured white house with his dirty cigar."

NAFTA negotiations got under way in 1986, when Reagan was President. It was signed in 1992, when Bush was president. It was a done deal by the time Clinton got the White House, and he had nothing to do with the agreement's conception or creation.

NAFTA negotiations got under way in 1986, when Reagan was President. It was signed in 1992, when Bush was president. It was a done deal by the time Clinton got the White House, and he had nothing to do with the agreement's conception or creation.

But, he threw his (necessary) support behind it. http://historycentral.com/documents/Clinton/SigningNaFTA.html