Author Topic: Chinese glass (Read 769 times)

lilabner · « **on:** March 10, 2004, 01:23:46 PM »

Article in my newspaper on outsourcing says Japan is now doing a lot of outsourcing to China to remain price competitive. It also said more than half the cameras sold in the world are now being manufactured in China.
I know Chinese products are not highly thought of by many on this board. Thought there would be interest in this development. China seems to be winning the trade war with their inexhaustible supply of factory workers who will show up for peanuts. They are certainly hurting us.

oldelkhunter · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2004, 07:21:17 AM »

Well we want cheaper and cheaper things and that can only be done in China,Vietnam and a couple of other 3rd world countries. They are probably assembling components shipped from Japan there. Seems to be a one way street with China and most of the world when it comes to Trade. We make all these trade agreements and never police them and lose entire industries as a result.

Bushnell Boy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2004, 07:52:28 AM »

I have heard that a lot of the Japanese companys have moved whole factories over to china. They still use the same materials and manufacturing process but since labor is cheaper there the cost of the product comes down.

akpls · « **Reply #3 on:** April 09, 2004, 10:44:34 AM »

Quote from: Bushnell Boy

....... They still use the same materials and manufacturing process but since labor is cheaper there the cost of the product comes down.

It's not necessarily passed on to the consumer though!

Bushnell Boy · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2004, 12:17:24 PM »

AKPLS your absolutely right. Sometimes I think it is used to lower the overall price and other times its not.

oldelkhunter · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2004, 03:15:13 PM »

No the extra goes to the overpaid execs and shareholders of the corporation.

jgalar · « **Reply #6 on:** April 10, 2004, 03:25:57 AM »

MADE IN JAPAN we used to see this and think the item was junk. My Leupold binoculars are made in China. The Chinese can make some very good stuff, but they can also make some trash. It depends on who the company has make their products. Give it a few years and the Chinese will be making great optics, the market place will determine which assembler stays in business. As for now I think the Chinese optics are a crap shoot at best and I would rather mine be made elsewhere.

Just my oppinion.....

Naphtali · « **Reply #7 on:** April 14, 2004, 05:45:43 PM »

And now for a political statement for which I apologize -- but I'm unrepentant.

One of the things Americans have is a high standard of living. We achieved it by improving working conditions, pay scales, and productivity.

The red Chinese government runs their country and pays their workers in ways that should appall every American. If a local company treated its workers the way the average mainland Chinese worker is treated, you would boycott the company's products, perhaps support a strike.

Is saving a few dollars so important that you are willing to subsidize force labor?

Why not insist that YOUR government tax Chinese goods to bring their real cost to what a comparable -- not identical -- prduct would cost from one of our more democratic allies?