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To: Toddsterpatriot
here is a good link. Walmart is using all kinds of US Suppliers per your link yesterday. Read a little more. Huffy - a US "supplier" imports 98% of their bicycles from China. A supplier is NOT the same thing as a manufacturer.
I believe we can buy Levi's in walmart now. Levi closed it's last US plants and shipped them overseas too. Your assertion that only 7% of Walmarts good are Chinese is just absurd.

Go randomly pick out 100 items off the shelf and see where it was made. I've got $100 that says more than 7 items will be made in China.

37 posted on 03/04/2005 12:54:27 PM PST by SwankyC (1st Bn 11th Marines Semper Fi)
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To: SwankyC
here is the link
43 posted on 03/04/2005 12:58:22 PM PST by SwankyC (1st Bn 11th Marines Semper Fi)
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To: SwankyC
here is a good link. Walmart is using all kinds of US Suppliers per your link yesterday. Read a little more. Huffy - a US "supplier" imports 98% of their bicycles from China. A supplier is NOT the same thing as a manufacturer.

Hate to break it to you, but that's an excerpt, not a link.

Last year, the firm bought US$15 billion products from China, half from direct purchasing, the other from the firm's suppliers in China.

That means Huffy should be included in the half from their suppliers in China.

This is a link Wal-Mart's China inventory to hit US$18b this year

Go randomly pick out 100 items off the shelf and see where it was made. I've got $100 that says more than 7 items will be made in China.

Here's another math lesson for you, I didn't say 7% of the number of items were from China, I said 7% of the value of goods they bought were from China.

70 of the items you pick up might be Chinese, but if they're 10 cents each and the other 30 you pick up are worth $3.10 each, then that works out to 7% of the value.

Don't try to do math yourself, just take my word for it.

50 posted on 03/04/2005 1:05:29 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Protectionism is economic ignorance!)
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