Web viewFord is moving production of its 2016 Ford F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks to its Ohio...
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Page 1, Copyright © 2014 by Dr. Wendy Tietz, http://accountingintheheadlines.com/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License . Why might Ford be shifting some jobs from Mexico to the United States? Ford is moving production of its 2016 Ford F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks to its Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, near Cleveland, Ohio. Currently those medium-duty trucks are produced in Mexico. Ford will be investing $168 million in the Avon Lake facility to retool the plant since it is currently set up to produce the Ford E-Series delivery vans (which are currently being phased out in favor of new, more efficient transit vans.) Questions 1. What reasons could Ford have had to shift production of the medium- duty trucks to Mexico originally? 2. What reasons could Ford have for shifting production of the medium- duty trucks back to the United States now?
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Why might Ford be shifting some jobs from Mexico to the United States?
Ford is moving production of its 2016 Ford F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks to its Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, near Cleveland, Ohio. Currently those medium-duty trucks are produced in Mexico. Ford will be investing $168 million in the Avon Lake facility to retool the plant since it is currently set up to produce the Ford E-Series delivery vans (which are currently being phased out in favor of new, more efficient transit vans.)
Questions1. What reasons could Ford have had to shift production of the medium-duty trucks
to Mexico originally?2. What reasons could Ford have for shifting production of the medium-duty trucks
back to the United States now?
