<exchange rate will be great when we sell are mine stock , make those extra $$$.>
This part is good.
The companies that I buy from are all in Thailand, China, and Korea. They've been good on holding and even slightly dropping prices, but I still pay in US $ and it hurts, margin drops when my costs go up. I haven't raised prices for years. So your make a few cents less is not going to help me sell more unless I lower my selling prices which will lower the margins to where it is no longer profitable. An 85 cent dollar was great. A 75 cent dollar was okay, at .63 dollar hurts, a .50 dollar and I'm looking for another business. I'm a little guy competing with the big boys and luckily am still in the business when pretty well all of my small competitors, and some medium sized, but much larger that I have quit the business.
The other companies are ones I represent that (brand name products, you'd recognize all the names) have products manufactured all over the world, with the exception of N. America. They buy in US$, the are big companies with budgets and numbers to make, and they won't take lower margins so prices will go up. Free trade doesn't effect them.
As to the exporters buying capital equipment, you are probably right now with free trade. I just remember watching a tv program with heads of various companies in various industries speaking about the C$. That was their take then, but that may well have been before free trade kicked in all the way.
Jim
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