[ikka]

If it really is the case that American toolmakers are better, then watch a resurgence of toolmaking come back as the idiots at the head of the companies that go with the slave labor come back.

It used to be that all the tech support and computer programming jobs were going to go to India. Then Dell closed down part of their tech support and re-opened a place in the USA: reason: US tech support is better and customers were complaining.

[OregonRancher]

I've got over twenty years experience in having injection molds being built both here and in Taiwan. At first it was cheaper to go foreign, but after several years of sending molds back and forth, flying repeatedly to check qc and design changes, I found that even with a higher price tag here, it was cheaper and faster in the long run to do everything as close as possible....