Kurt Granroth said:
>
> That's one thing I've wondered about for years but could never find
> an answer to: how much of the money for any given car goes to a
> particular country? If I buy a Honda Accord which is built in KY or
> TN or somewhere around there, how much of that money stays in the US
> and how much goes back to Japan? Flip that with a Ford Fusion which
> is built in Mexico. What's the percentage there?
Some years back US Congress passed a law that cars must have a label that
shows a percentage of "American" content. "American" means US and Canada.
This label is usually found on the driver's window or the next window
back of a new car.
A bit of google searching found an article with some of the values listed.
http://www.tampabay.com/living/story.cfm?storyid=153307
This does not answer how much money "stays" in a country, which is much
harder to answer. For example, go buy an all-American Dodge:
- Many of the engines are acutually made by Mitsubishi (ex. 3.3 liter V-6
in the Caravan and other cars).
- Assembly is in Mexico, Canada or the US.
- DaimlerChrysler is a company as a result of the merger between Crysler
and the german company that own Mercedes-Benz. So do the profits stay
here or go to Germany?
So, is buying a Dodge, buying American? Is buying a Toyota Sienna (90%
"American" and assembled in Princeton, Ind.), not buying American?
[shrug]
Alan
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