The opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement will be making hay with the news that Redmond, Washington-based Nintendo of America Inc plans to relocate its US production facilities to Mexico at the cost of 136 American jobs. Phil Rogers, vice-president, operations for Nintendo Co Ltd’s US operations told Reuters the move is being made the better to serve the company’s rapidly-growing Latin American market. The company employs about 1,500 people at its US headquarters in Redmond, so the lay-offs, affect about 9% of the workforce. Nintendo is in discussions with several potential contract manufacturers for the new Mexican facility, and it insists that the move would have been made with or without the US-Canada-Mexico Free Trade Agreement.
