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Danny Low wrote:
> 
> David............ says...
> >   Thompson Electronics is the owner of RCA.  They are moving because
> >they are losing money trying to compete with other companies that are
> >using the NAFTA agreement to import their less expensive TVs into the
> >USA.
> 
> Thompson Electronics is a French company that has been in financial trouble for
> many years due to bad management and French government restrictions intended to
> maintain employment in France. It is highly questionable to blame NAFTA for
> this move as the company was losing money due to many other causes. Indeed,
> without NAFTA it is reasonable to assume that they would have simply shut down
> the plant or moved it to Asia. With NAFTA some of the money is coming back to
> the USA in the form of Mexican shoppers. The NAFTA plants are all located just
> across the border and the workers frequently shop in the USA because there are
> more shopping centers in the USA and they can afford to shop in the USA.

To what extent has their competitiveness been hampered by 
EPA retrictions in the U.S. -- was this the primary reason for 
the move?  If so, I hate to imagine what's happening down there
along the Rio Grande.

-- 
Lane Wimberley
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
Austin, TX