{"id":58094,"date":"2025-04-01T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/01\/linda-hasenfratz-you-cant-unscramble-the-eggs-on-auto-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T12:24:32","slug":"linda-hasenfratz-you-cant-unscramble-the-eggs-on-auto-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/01\/linda-hasenfratz-you-cant-unscramble-the-eggs-on-auto-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Hasenfratz: You can&#8217;t unscramble the eggs on auto trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\" class=\"article-header article-header--story\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" data-aqa=\"nav-breadcrumb\">\n<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/p>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Economy<\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Autos<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"article-header__detail\">\n<div class=\"article-header__detail__texts\">\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">Opinion: Shifting production comes at great cost but saves nothing and brings no additional revenue. Where is the payback?<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p><span class=\"published-date__since\">Published Apr 01, 2025<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"published-date__word-count\">5 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta__bottom\">\n<div class=\"bookmark-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover\" data-aqa=\"popover\" data-click-to-appear=\"True\" data-container=\"\" data-container-offset=\"\" data-no-style=\"\" data-popover-component=\"\" data-position=\"top\" data-sticky=\"\" data-tail-offset=\"200\" data-tail-position=\"right\"><button class=\"popover__trigger bookmark-button\"><span class=\"save-article-button save-article-button--default\" title=\"Save article\" data-article-id=\"e97654d0-3936-49d4-b0e3-ccd2b51b4efe\" data-evt-skip-click=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<div aria-describedby=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\" class=\"popover__content\" hidden=\"\" role=\"dialog\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__text\" id=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\">\n<div class=\"bookmark__popover__content\">\n<p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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What, you say? Canadian business productive? Yes. Canadian productivity stats reported to you do not reflect the productivity of Canadian business because they include workers who do not generate sales, such as government and not-for-profit workers. They reflect our overall demographics. If we exclude those workers from the calculation and just look at Canadian business you can see a strong and steady growth in productivity, up more than 50 per cent over the past 25 years. Canadian manufacturing productivity growth has outpaced that of the U.S. steadily over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">It is up to us to unlock Canada\u2019s prosperity potential. Governments must reduce regulatory burdens to accelerate time to market, reduce personal and business income taxes to make us more globally attractive to talent and investment, and reduce heavy government bureaucracy. 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That means if production declines, it hurts American workers more than any other country. Way more.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. produces 9.9 million vehicles a year, 66 per cent of North America\u2019s total. The population of the U.S. is 67 per cent of all North America.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico produces 4 million vehicles a year, 26 per cent of North America\u2019s total. The population of Mexico is 25 per cent of all North America.<\/p>\n<p>Canada produces 1.2 million vehicles a year, 8 per cent of North America\u2019s total. The population of Canada is 8 per cent of all North America.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_5\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment7190794770818961018212928882475008\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 5<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-5\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"5\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-5\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Seems reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>The automotive industry in North America is highly integrated. Parts often cross the border six or seven times in some form or another before pulling into your driveway as a new vehicle. We are all enormously reliant on each other. Mexican-built vehicles have 40 per cent U.S. content. If you shut down Mexican auto imports into the U.S., that is approximately US$72 billion of U.S. parts not being made and about 360,000 American workers out of work.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t unscramble the eggs. The cost is enormous, the timeframes are lengthy and the payback is zero.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting suppliers for a highly engineered part or sub-assembly cannot happen quickly. It takes 12 to 18 months and significant investment for the new supplier to tool up and do all the required testing and validation. Meantime, automakers are paying tariffs of 25 per cent. No way does that math work.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_6\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment1539796541677832436168621469728768\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 6<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-6\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"6\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-6\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Shifting production saves nothing and brings no additional revenue. Where is the payback for business? Avoiding tariffs that could go away tomorrow? Or, sorry, was that yesterday?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at vehicle\u00a0assembly as an example. The U.S. administration certainly appears to want to make all the vehicles in North America in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding that Canadians and Mexicans buy vehicles, too, and might just want to have some production, let\u2019s just explore this idea.<\/p>\n<p>The cost to build a plant to make 250,000 vehicles is US$2.5 billion to US$5 billion and takes two to three years to get to production. For five million vehicles that would be US$75 billion. Three years from now, vehicles are rolling off the line in the U.S. Three years and 294 days from now, a new administration will be taking office in the U.S. No reduced cost, no additional revenue, no payback.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_7\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment5330163758102767489618419900219392\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 7<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-7\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"7\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-7\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Instead, let\u2019s focus on how we can instead build and sell more vehicles globally. North America buys 19.2 million cars and the global market is 89 million, meaning 80 per cent of the world\u2019s automotive sales are outside of North America \u2014 let\u2019s target that.<\/p>\n<p>What if Mexico made the highest labour content parts of the car, Canada made the most energy intensive parts of the car (remember our 80 per cent clean energy grid), the U.S. made the rest of the parts, and we split up vehicle production fairly (maybe by population). Tap into world leading North American technology to drive amazing innovation into those cars. Then we might just have the most innovative, leading edge, lowest cost and greenest cars in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In the end it is collaboration that drives prosperity, not divisiveness. When did you ever strengthen a chain by breaking it?<\/p>\n<section aria-labelledby=\"moreTopicLabel1875277661868981438608924603318272\" class=\"more-topic\" data-aqa=\"embed-more-topic\" data-carousel-component=\"\" data-carousel-icon-button=\"\" data-carousel-type=\"list\">\n<p>Recommended from Editorial<\/p>\n<p><button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-prev\" data-carousel-prev=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"previous\" type=\"button\"\/><\/p>\n<ol class=\"more-topic__items list-unstyled\" data-carousel-slide-list=\"\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<li data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" trump=\"\" carney=\"\" destroy=\"\" to=\"\" free=\"\" trade=\"\" data-carousel-item=\"\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\"> <picture class=\"more-topic__item-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the media after meeting with his cabinet to deal with the US auto tariffs on March 27, 2025.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/y.jpg?h=96&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=seIjyQW04SVX7t3yQ8UfdQ\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/y.jpg?h=96&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=5&amp;sig=2AyMIC7ZHlQtFV6AIvOZDg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/y.jpg?h=96&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=seIjyQW04SVX7t3yQ8UfdQ, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/y.jpg?h=192&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=yMeuxXraiB_CComBmU0BRg 2x,&#10;                                             https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/y.jpg?h=288&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=KzfiJ3x-SGoRfRGOGa3_jw 3x\" class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/><\/picture>\n<p><span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\">Corcoran: Trump, Carney destroy to free trade<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" tariffs=\"\" matter=\"\" but=\"\" canada=\"\" challenges=\"\" run=\"\" deep=\"\" data-carousel-item=\"\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\"> <picture class=\"more-topic__item-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Parliament Hill is viewed below a Canadian flag in Gatineau, Que.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no0326canada-flag.jpg?h=96&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=uH_v4yC12dVOQR_lRqQaNw\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no0326canada-flag.jpg?h=96&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=5&amp;sig=aZmnktThgWMRFT_XPEvGlg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no0326canada-flag.jpg?h=96&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=uH_v4yC12dVOQR_lRqQaNw, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no0326canada-flag.jpg?h=192&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=Rx6j_tvQSntGlxzhhVh2ew 2x,&#10;                                             https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/no0326canada-flag.jpg?h=288&amp;strip=all&amp;quality=80&amp;sig=D4Me5_Wf5tP_0XSYhClA0w 3x\" class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/><\/picture>\n<p><span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\">Opinion: Tariffs matter, but Canada\u2019s challenges run deep<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-next\" data-carousel-next=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"next\" type=\"button\"\/><\/section>\n<p>Let\u2019s collaborate in North America and win together and then we will all be more prosperous.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Canada, let\u2019s stay calm, let\u2019s be confident, and above all let\u2019s focus on facts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Linda Hasenfratz is the executive chair of the board of Linamar Corp.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__share-group article-delimiter\" data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" data-evt-typ=\"page_scroll\">\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/>Linda Hasenfratz: You can&#8217;t unscramble the eggs on auto trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-04-01 12:24:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links Economy Autos Opinion: Shifting production comes at great cost but saves nothing and brings no additional revenue. 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