jpd80 Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Neither of those two surveys adequately explain how or why Ranger’s supposed local content fell so much without Ford making major supply changes….Honestly, I lost interest at that point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rperez817 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 14 hours ago, iamweasel said: Yet no discussion on the impact of subassemblies which has a drastic impact on the numbers. Maybe that's why American is not a Top-25 Business School. The impact of subassemblies, mixing U.S. with Canadian parts content, inability to distinguish between US-owned and non-US-owned parts and component suppliers, and other caveats to the accuracy of AALA calculations are mentioned in the "Behind the Made in America Auto Index" section here. Auto Index | Kogod School of Business (american.edu) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rperez817 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 12 hours ago, akirby said: Moderators ignore anything that disagree with their preconceived notions. Corrected. Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamweasel Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 3 hours ago, rperez817 said: The impact of subassemblies, mixing U.S. with Canadian parts content, inability to distinguish between US-owned and non-US-owned parts and component suppliers, and other caveats to the accuracy of AALA calculations are mentioned in the "Behind the Made in America Auto Index" section here. Auto Index | Kogod School of Business (american.edu) Stronger wording is needed there to really give proper context. Problem is, they won't do that because if they do, that'll let everyone know their exercise is fairly pointless. Just factoring in the use of subassemblies alone can make your domestic content percentage double (or more) as is the case with the Tundra and many other Asian branded vehicles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rperez817 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 37 minutes ago, iamweasel said: Stronger wording is needed there to really give proper context. Problem is, they won't do that because if they do, that'll let everyone know their exercise is fairly pointless. Just factoring in the use of subassemblies alone can make your domestic content percentage double (or more) as is the case with the Tundra and many other Asian branded vehicles. Thank you iamweasel sir. Do you support repealing AALA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamweasel Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 16 minutes ago, rperez817 said: Thank you iamweasel sir. Do you support repealing AALA? My first preference would be to keep it but do it right, i.e, remove the loopholes. For starters, require subassemblies to be broken-out and list each part in those subassemblies as domestic or foreign based on each individual part, not lumped together as a group. There are a few other issues, too, but that is the biggest issue by far. Without that the AALA is simply a way for imports to overstate their domestic content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 4 hours ago, rperez817 said: Corrected. Keep up the good work! People with 2 strikes probably shouldn’t poke the bear…. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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