If we werent happy with it before, and now all three partners are happy, isn't that a win? you dont have to get over on somebody to make it a successful change. The fact that all three partners are happy is a success.
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It was a success before is my point. Who wasn't happy? All the companies that did business with Mexico and Canada were happy.
It's like this whole China thing. There's a trade deficit because we are the biggest consumers on the planet and we like a 2XL all cotton T-shirt at Walmart for $3.99. And people tend to forget that China actually has leverage in negotiations. We are just so used to having all the leverage that we can't handle somebody else having leverage.
NOBODY, put a gun to these companies heads to give up their intellectual property. They did it because after doing their cost benefit analysis they decided giving up the intellectual property WAS WORTH access to 1.2 billion customers. Both sides have leverage.
The world has changed and become much more competitive. It's not 1992 were we can just show up with the Dream Team and crush everybody by 60. We actually have to work harder for the same results.
