World Cars, World Trade

GM is positioning Buick as a global brand drawing upon global product. As we've earlier blogged , this will work only if there is a conv...

The Tariff Advantage of Mexico

Adapted from a post by Griffin Cook on the Econ 244 blog, May 18, 2013 Audi's decision to place the plant that will build the new Q5 cro...

Why site assembly in Mexico?

...tariffs are 0% on vehicles shipped from Mexico... Honda is building a full-sized assembly plant (200K units per year) as is Mazda; Nissan...