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Okay, so what's causing our costs to be higher?
I know Nissan US will likely try to BLAME it on things like unions or rising labor costs, but there's NO WAY that amounts to a >20% rise in production costs even if you cite "hidden" costs behind the 6.6% or whatever they got. Keep in mind that costs were LOWER here and NOW they're TWENTY PERCENT LOWER in japan. That means we rose a BUNCH more than where we were at because there's no way they moved it here if we were 1% lower than japan.
Which part of the raw-materials-to-auto-parts chain is inflating the hell out of costs to declare record profits this time?