From: ahk@chinet.com

Jishnu Mukerji  wrote:
>On 9/2/2016 12:02 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>Final assembly isn't the point at which significant value is added. If
>>wages of workers performing final assembly are a little higher in one
>>country versus another country, it doesn't make all that much difference in
>>the manufacturer's costs. With respect to railcars, where final assembly
>>takes place is not where the true value is added in the manufacturing
>>process.

>Apparently your mind is sufficiently made up so presenting any facts may
>only bring down your abusive wrath and achieve nothing else.

I missed any followup in which facts contradicting my points were
presented. Do you have that Message-ID?

>But the fact is that about 80% of the content will be manufactured at
>various sites by various subcontractors in the US.

Well, that's something.

Are the components themselves made of imported components, again, just
receiving final assembly, or are the major subcomponents all manufactured
at the point at which the component is assembled?

Is the major component designed in Europe or the United States? If it's
still Europe, then you are completely discounting the significant value
of the manufacturing process that the design portion represents, which is
an unreasonable position to take.

>Yes final assembly will be in Hornell. Alstom has a waiver to produce
>the first two sets in Europe, and then they are required to set up most
>of the supply chain in the US.

>This is similar to the mix that Siemens has in its manufacture of the
>engines and the train sets for AAF too.

Do you really believe that Buy American rules have resulted in this
industry returning to the United States?

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