589 Isolationism Again

[Martin Hash]

[Speaker to Animals]

I agree, but I wonder if it is more effective to point out that this is not even really trade. If Ford moves a car factory from Detroit to Indiana, we don't call that trade when they sell Ford trucks in Michigan. It doesn't become "trade" just because they moved a factory over some border, including a national border.

Trade is when Japan builds a car in Japan, loads it onto a ship, sails it across the Pacific, and sells it in the United States. You can even argue it is sort of trade if a Japanese car company moves a factory to the US in order to build cars they sell inside the US. But if Japan moved a factory to the US, built cars here, and then shipped those cars back to Japan, would these same people call that "trade"? Doubtful.

[GloryofGreece]

I agree, but I wonder if it is more effective to point out that this is not even really trade. If Ford moves a car factory from Detroit to Indiana, we don't call that trade when they sell Ford trucks in Michigan. It doesn't become "trade" just because they moved a factory over some border, including a national border.

Trade is when Japan builds a car in Japan, loads it onto a ship, sails it across the Pacific, and sells it in the United States. You can even argue it is sort of trade if a Japanese car company moves a factory to the US in order to build cars they sell inside the US. But if Japan moved a factory to the US, built cars here, and then shipped those cars back to Japan, would these same people call that "trade"? Doubtful.

On a side not , the more I learn about Henry Ford the more I like him and thank he should be called an American patriot. Captain of Industry and not a Robber Baron.