On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:20:37 -0700, Jay in the Mojave
wrote:

|I would think that there maybe a slight difference between the over seas
|and state side manufacture costs. I wounder what that really are with
|todays manufacturing with smt ect?!?!?
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What overseas manufacturing buys you often is tax shelters. What
foreign countries have done over the past forty years is offer tarrif
free zones just to get companies to establish manufacturing centers in
their country. In the 70's Malaysia offered US and Japanese companies
ten year tarrif free zones. So a company could go into that country
and manufacture using local labor and not have to pay tarrifs for
exportig piece parts of finished goods.

During the 90's that started to change. Instead many countries started
requiring local content in the manufacture of goods sold within thier
country. That has forced US as well as European and Japanese companies
to do piece part manufacturing, source local manufactured asemblies
or do final assembly in the destination counrty.

I remember sitting at a dinner with a VP of the company I used to work
for and he maid the comment that we were running out of "Stable" third
world countries to move manufacturing to. That comment was made in
1979!!!!!!!! After China and India, where do they go to? Not a lot
left in the world.

james