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Boeing Awards China Firms $500 Mln Supply Contracts
Reuters ^
| June 29, 2007
Posted on 06/29/2007 12:16:59 AM PDT by anymouse
Boeing Co. said on Friday it had awarded commercial airplane parts and components supply contracts worth $500 million to Chinese firms, including Hafei Aviation Industry Co. Supply contracts, including for parts for the jumbo 747-8 aircraft, were also agreed with subsidiaries of state-owned Chinese aircraft makers AVIC I and AVIC II.
Both Boeing and its European rival, Airbus, have awarded sizeable parts contracts to Chinese manufacturers while also seeking to secure aircraft orders in the nation's fast-growing aviation sector.
Airbus has agreed to set up an aircraft assembly facility with three Chinese partners in the northern port city of Tianjin, with production scheduled to start in 2009.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Technical
KEYWORDS: aircraft; boeing; china; trade
More American jobs being off-shored to China.
Building future bombers that Americans just won't build.
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posted on
06/29/2007 12:17:00 AM PDT
by
anymouse
To: anymouse
Several hundred Boeing workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee were given plant closure notice yesterday. Thanky again Jeorge Most Favored Friend of China Trade Bush.
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posted on
06/29/2007 12:27:53 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Kool Aid! The popular American favorite drink now Made In Mexico. Pro-Open Borders? Drink Up!)
To: anymouse
Great. Just great. They've poisoned pet food, put lead into kiddy toys, added toxins into tooth paste, ruined fish imports, and now they plan to build take out airplanes! Somebody wake me when it's over.
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posted on
06/29/2007 12:31:05 AM PDT
by
Humidston
(THOMPSON/WATTS - 2008)
To: Humidston
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posted on
06/29/2007 12:33:13 AM PDT
by
Humidston
(THOMPSON/WATTS - 2008)
To: cva66snipe
the success of the 787 doesn’t come from nothing. It’s an american concept - but a world product - same with the JSF.
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posted on
06/29/2007 12:47:19 AM PDT
by
Rummenigge
(there's people willing to blow out the light because it casts a shadow)
To: Rummenigge
We are the world we are the children. We sell off our childrens future for corporate reasons. Theres a NWO the sheeple buy it's lies. It's true we've seen our better days a nation dies.
All together now everybody join hands and sing.
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posted on
06/29/2007 12:54:32 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Kool Aid! The popular American favorite drink now Made In Mexico. Pro-Open Borders? Drink Up!)
To: cva66snipe
Aside from dealing with Communist rat bastards, I don’t have a problem with a US based company manufacturing goods in another country for the host country’s consumption. It’s when they sell it back here at a dollar cheaper...
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posted on
06/29/2007 1:06:05 AM PDT
by
endthematrix
(a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
To: endthematrix
I said $1 cheaper, but in many cases US firms can not compete. I was thinking (Asian made) Nike athletic shoes for some reason...
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posted on
06/29/2007 1:13:59 AM PDT
by
endthematrix
(a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
To: endthematrix
That too will come to pass. Not to mention yet more technology going to China to use against us at a future date. If this were a factory in Spain or even Brazil I would not be near as concerned. But China?
Right now our best foreign trade relations comes from Japan. They do make much of what they sell here in the US. What next though Northrop Grunham factories in China to build them or us fighters and ships? It's gone far beyond low tech items and both parties don't care. China despite all the assurances from our elected is not our friend.
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posted on
06/29/2007 1:17:42 AM PDT
by
cva66snipe
(Kool Aid! The popular American favorite drink now Made In Mexico. Pro-Open Borders? Drink Up!)
To: anymouse
I hate to read stories like this.
I believe it is a mistake to send out these contracts overseas.
We need to keep hard manufacturing jobs within our borders.
Just my opinion.
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posted on
06/29/2007 1:20:49 AM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia; just the lowly opinion of a red state wannabe.)
To: anymouse
If we want to do something about it, we have to ignore our intuitive emotions to some extent and get informed.
Fred Thompson:
* Voted YES on permanent normal trade relations with China. (Sep 2000) [under "Free Trade"]
Duncan Hunter:
* Voted NO on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. (May 2000) [under "Foreign Policy]
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posted on
06/29/2007 2:27:30 AM PDT
by
familyop
(Duncan Hunter for President! ...or Newt Gingrich for President!)
To: anymouse
So I it China's next bomber will look like a 747-8...
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posted on
06/29/2007 2:29:56 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: anymouse
Far scarier is the products they produce are so horribly inferior. This is one area that I’d like the parts made from the highest bidder not the lowest.
To: Humidston
Great. Just great. Rut-roh. Extraordinarily poor timing on Boeing's part.
May have to change that slogan that's used on the Airbust threads a bit:
"If it's Boeing, I ain't going.....
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posted on
06/29/2007 4:53:33 AM PDT
by
Thermalseeker
(Just the facts ma'am)
To: liberty or death
This is one area that Id like the parts made from the highest bidder not the lowest. An old Army helecopter pilot friend of mine once replied the following when asked what he liked best about flying military helecopters:
"It's a collection of 500,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. What's not to like?"
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posted on
06/29/2007 4:56:12 AM PDT
by
Thermalseeker
(Just the facts ma'am)
To: anymouse
If we want to sell planes to China, and apparently we do, then we have to give them a piece of the pie.
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posted on
06/29/2007 4:58:41 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
To: cva66snipe
China is our trusted trading partner and friend. They would never steal technology to be used against us. /sarc
To: DungeonMaster
If we want to sell planes to China, and apparently we do, then we have to give them a piece of the pie.
Keep that thought in mind next time you're at cruising altitude. Yet another reason NOT to fly. Blackbird.
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posted on
06/29/2007 5:43:00 AM PDT
by
BlackbirdSST
(We stirred the melting pot (America), and incompetence floated to the top!)
To: anymouse
Every plane will come with a supply of a nicely laminated 8X10 inch cards for each seatback pocket containing the following wording:
"DO NOT BE ALARMED!"
The components falling from this aircraft while in flight are of the finest Chinese manufacture."
To: anymouse
Welcome to the New World Order. How can anyone not enjoy this globalism?
Apologize to your children while you still can.
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posted on
06/29/2007 11:34:40 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Check out this website for the National Veterans Coalition http://www.nvets.org/)
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