On 2/5/2018 6:47 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
John B. wrote:

A number of car makers are building
automobiles in countries other in where their
home office is located. Is a Honda built in
the U.S. an American made auto?

If the automobile equivalent of the bike frame
is put together in the US then yes, if we were
to transfer this definition from bikes to cars.

The domestic content laws are so convoluted (written to benefit the
former big 3) that going by the final assembly location is really the
only logical way to determine country-of-origin.

Is a Ford built in Mexico an American vehicle (accepting the common
definition of "American" as U.S.) just because Ford's headquarters is in
the U.S.? Is a Toyota built in the U.S. a Japanese vehicle? And of
course Toyota has huge U.S. design centers, they are not just doing
assembly here. I'm more concerned with the jobs of auto workers than the
jobs of corporate execs.