A Job-Creating Lesson For The Tech Industry

A Job-Creating Lesson For The Tech Industry
FILE - In this March 30, 2011 file photo, a 2011 Nissan Rogue is shown at Gladstone Nissan in Gladstone, Ore. The French-Japanese auto alliance of Renault and Nissan is investing $160 million in its South Korean Renault Samsung Motors to boost annual production by 80,000 vehicles, taking advantage of the nation's free trade agreement with the U.S. The investment, announced Friday, July 20, 2012 will be for the next-generation Nissan Rogue crossover sport-utility vehicle, starting production in 2014, with annual capacity of 80,000 vehicles. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
FILE - In this March 30, 2011 file photo, a 2011 Nissan Rogue is shown at Gladstone Nissan in Gladstone, Ore. The French-Japanese auto alliance of Renault and Nissan is investing $160 million in its South Korean Renault Samsung Motors to boost annual production by 80,000 vehicles, taking advantage of the nation's free trade agreement with the U.S. The investment, announced Friday, July 20, 2012 will be for the next-generation Nissan Rogue crossover sport-utility vehicle, starting production in 2014, with annual capacity of 80,000 vehicles. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

SMYRNA, Tenn. — The dairy farms that once draped the countryside here were paved over so the Japanese carmaker Nissan could build its first American assembly plant. Eighty miles to the south, another green pasture was replaced by a Nissan engine factory, and across Tennessee about 100 Nissan suppliers dot the landscape, making steel in Murfreesboro, air conditioning units in Lewisburg, transmission parts in Portland.

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