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Ford Sees Sales Soar After Moving Production from Mexico to Ohio
BLUF: [LI] Perhaps sensing that the country may be heading in a new, anti-globalist direction, Ford shifted the production of a line of trucks from Mexico to Ohio in mid-2015!

Ford’s [F-650 and F-750 medium-duty commercial] trucks which used to be built in Mexico started rolling off an assembly line in Ohio this week.

That’s good news for the 1,000 Ford workers in Ohio, who might have otherwise been out of work.

It’s also good publicity for Ford (F), which has been under fire for investing so much in Mexico. In April, the automaker said it would invest $2.5 billion in transmission plants in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Guanajuato, creating about 3,800 jobs there.

To say that their line subsequently had a successful sales year would be an understatement, as sales of medium-duty trucks soared :

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Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-17
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=473425