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Why Your Flat-Screen TV Would Cost More If Nafta Ends


Retailers across the U.S. will be cutting prices on TVs during the holiday season, but as the WSJ’s Robbie Whelan explains while busting open a Samsung flatscreen, trade talks between the U.S. and Mexico could change that. Photo: Jeff Bush/The Wall Street JournalTIJUANA, Mexico—One of the biggest potential casualties of the trade scuffle under way between Mexico and the U.S. is also one of America’s favorite consumer products: cheap, high-definition, flat-panel televisions. Every year, U.S. consumers buy more than 40 million flat-screen TVs, as many as three-quarters of them assembled in factories here in Mexico’s electronics-producing hub on the border with California.


Source: Wall Street Journal November 22, 2017 10:00 UTC



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