“This is about growing our business in Asia.”Still, unions representing its workers in the United States are not pleased. The union represents Harley-Davidson workers at plants including one in York, Pennsylvania, where the company plans to lay off over 100 workers. In the United States, the same model retails for just over half that amount. The Thailand plant will assemble motorcycles for Asia that were previously imported from India or the United States. Mr Akaravech said he would not expect there to be a big difference between motorcycles made in Thailand and ones made in the United States.

Source: Bangkok Post May 24, 2017 07:25 UTC