Is NAFTA the reason for USA jobs going to India and abroad?

Question

is it NAFTA's fault that the USA is losing thousands of manufacturing, IT/programming/computer support, and customer service jobs to other countries??

Answer 1

No, NAFTA is about the trade of goods between Mexico, the United States and Canada and has increased both American jobs and wages from the research studies.  Although it did trigger layoffs in all three countries, it only did it to inefficient industries.  If your employer was bad at their job, they lost their business in competition.  That is what capitalism is.

Jobs are outsourcing to India because India has more college graduates than America has Americans.  If every American had a college degree India would still have more graduates because it is the world's second largest country by population.

Wages are low in India because it is a constitutionally socialist country and it is killing most of their industries, however some, like software, because they are new, have fell through the cracks of regulation there.  Software engineering is exploding in India is also because American industry is forcing the Indian industry to be tougher than the Americans.  Seventy percent of all quality assurance programs in American software firms fail.  But, because they are Americans they still get work even though they do a bad job.  Because American firms do not trust Indian firms, they must first have a proven quality assurance program in place before they can get work.  In other words, almost all American firms cannot get past CMM level 1 status while almost all Indian firms are at or approaching CMM level 6 status.

A CMM level one firm is a firm whose employees are breathing.  A CMM level six firm is a firm that finds its mistakes, documents its mistake, shares its mistakes internally and learns how not to repeat them.  You figure out who is going to win in that battle.

Answer 2

1st of all NAFTA means the north america free trade agreement. It is an agreement between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.  NAFTA is suppose to make it easier for all 3 nations to conduct trade, without having to worry about quotas, export-import taxes etc...

Now the reason why name companies outsource many jobs to other countries such as India is to save on cost.  In order for businesses to remain competitive they must offer low prices.  Think about it, if you go to the store and you have to buy a product of similar quality and with similiar features would you be the cheaper one or the most expensive one?  People buy the cheapest one.  (just ask Wal-mart)  Most industries can't stay competetive if they have to pay big wages and salaries to their employees.  So unfourtunatly for workers in the U.S. companies can hire people in countries such as India for a lot less.  

For an example of this concept, look at GM they can't compete because the car industry in the U.S. is full with unions that raises the cost of doing business.  It is calculated that unions add to the cost of a car anywhere from $2-$5 thousand dollars.  Other countries don't have this problem.  So what is GM to do? well they can't outsource like other companies so they laid off a big chunk of their labor force.  So what I'm trying to say is, consumers in the U.S. demand low prices and in order for industries to provide low prices they must cut cost and look for savings else where.  If an Indian programmer is able to work just as good as an American but charges 1/3 of what you pay an American programmer then fire then move to India and hired a lot of them to grow your business.

Bottom line as the guy before me said: businesses are in it for the money.

Answer 3

its the fault bush and d**k  cause they allow it and all they do is complain that India and china pollute and the world allows them but wont allow the USA to do the same and all they have to do is boycott china and India and the companies that do business with them.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four of the world's 10 most polluted places are in Russia and two former Soviet republics, an independent environmental group said in a report released on Wednesday.

Encompassing seven countries, the top 10 sites may cause some 12 million people to suffer health problems ranging from asthma and other respiratory ailments to birth defects and premature death, the New York-based Blacksmith Institute said.

"These places are sapping the strength of the populations around them, and it's not rocket science to fix them," Richard Fuller, the nonprofit group's founder and director told reporters on a conference call.

He said simple engineering projects could make many of the places safe, but that funds, political will, and technical ability were often lacking.

Concern about polluted places is growing as the world's population swells and people in developing countries like China and India buy more cars and electronics -- habits that had been limited mainly to rich countries like the United States.

The polluted sites in Russia and the former Soviet republics include Dzerzhinsk, Russia, which until the end of the Cold War was one of the country's major chemical weapons centers, and Chernobyl, Ukraine, where the world's worst nuclear accident occurred in 1986, Blacksmith said its second annual report.

Answer 4

NAFTA is North America Free Trade Agreement

nothing to do with companies outsourcing to other countries.

the cost of outsourcing is cheaper than the cost of paying US workers and companies are here to make money.