Re: Typical decent Al Bicycle diamond frame costs $8 to make in Taiwan
Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@sfu.ca>
In article <051220051933154076%lucasirag...@rogers.com>,
Luke <lucasirag
...@rogers.com> wrote:
> This from Sheldon Brown's Bentride Podcast (@ 8:50). No wonder
> manufacturing is a declining sector in North America! This can't be the
> total cost of production (stock and labor); does the figure apply to
> labor cost only?
> The mp3 file is available for d/l at Sheldon's website
> (http://sheldonbrown.com/podcasts/).
> Luke
Could be. The anecdote I heard from a maker of electronic I/O devices
was that when they closed their domestic manufacturing facility, the
economics were such that they could air-ship completed products to North
America from China for the same total mfg cost as making the connector
cords here.
It's Japan all over again,
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