To: throwback
What are you manufacturing that the Chinese cant target and make cheaper than you can with their own parts, and cut you out as the middleman? Water meters and meter-reading equipment, for US & Canadian markets. China can't break into the market because of their sloppy quality. We and our competitors have enormous market share.
12 posted on
11/01/2018 9:59:35 AM PDT by
backwoods-engineer
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To: backwoods-engineer
Good for you. Cheapest isn't always the least expensive. When I can I much prefer to buy a more expensive product because it lasts. I think people expected that China would evolve like Japan and Korea did. At different times they had cheap labor, but they evolved such that their economies seem to compete on a level playing field with other developed countries. The Chinese seem to always cut corners, though. Maybe communism and its need for conformity will never permit that evolution.
15 posted on
11/01/2018 12:05:57 PM PDT by
throwback
(The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
To: backwoods-engineer
China could build a competitive product, if it were of strategic value to their goals. Otherwise they export a mimic slipshod product to separate the uninformed from their funds.
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