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Haven't read the article because the NY Times is blocked in China, so not sure if the article says it but... There's almost no foreign transport costs for manu
by vorg 14y ago
Haven't read the article because the NY Times is blocked in China, so not sure if the article says it but...
There's almost no foreign transport costs for manufacturing just south of the US/Mexico border. Fuel for shipping can only go up over time.
If Mexican workers get too expensive, Mexico would find it easier politically to take in immigrants from poorer countries than the US would.
Then there's Turkey for Europe.
- barry-cotter 14y agoFuel for shipping may be on an upward cost trend but shipping is more energy efficient than more or less any method of transportation requiring an engine. Trucking stuff across the border takes a lot more fuel per unit weight. I doubt the point on immigrants too; Mexican enforcement of immigration laws is a great deal more vigorous than its US equivalents.
- ap3 14y agoI would say that Mexico's immigration laws are less open that the US's, but enforcement is nowhere near the level of US enforcement. Mexico has no Border Patrol, no DHS, no USCIS equivalents and is more open to bribes and such.