Posted on 08/05/2022 4:21:53 AM PDT by FarCenter
Shipments to iPhone assembler Pegatron's factory in China were being held for scrutiny by Chinese customs officials a day after the company's senior executive met with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Taipei during a visit that has drawn harsh condemnation from Beijing.
The shipments to Pegatron's Suzhou facility, which makes a wide range of products for American clients like Microsoft and Tesla, were being checked on Thursday to see if they violated a rule against cartons carrying the words "Taiwan" or "Republic of China" -- the island's formal name -- multiple sources familiar with the matter said.
Pegatron Vice Chairman Jason Chen and other Taiwanese chip industry figures met with Pelosi at a lunch hosted by President Tsai Ing-Wen on Wednesday. A photo of the event was later posted by the Presidential Office showing Chen and others, including TSMC founder Morris Chang and Chairman Mark Liu.
Several Taiwanese component suppliers also received urgent requests from their customers on Friday morning asking them to be sure that shipments comply with the labeling requirements. Chinese authorities reiterated that boxes, shipping documents, cartons, and export and import declaration forms cannot show the words "Republic of China," "R.O.C." or "Taiwan," according to notices from manufacturers citing the authorities and seen by Nikkei Asia.
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Self-governed democratic Taiwan, which Beijing views as a part of its territory, counts China as its most important trade partner. Exports to mainland China reached almost $250 billion in 2021, China's customs data showed -- an increase of about 24.7% from 2020.
However, relations between Taipei and Beijing have deteriorated significantly as the U.S. and China remain locked in a bitter geopolitical trade and tech war. Taiwan, a leading tech economy that controls the world's top contract chipmakers and contract electronics manufacturers, has found itself stuck in the middle of these tensions since 2018.
Pegatron is second largest Taiwanese contract manufacturer after Hon Hai (aka Foxconn), which also has its main operations in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegatron
Pegatron's principal executive offices and many assets are located in Taiwan.[18] As of March 2010, Pegatron had approximately 5,646 employees stationed in Taiwan, 89,521 in China, 2,400 in the Czech Republic and 200 in the United States, Mexico, and Japan.[1][needs update] Pegatron has manufacturing plants in Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Indonesia, and China, and customer service centers in the United States and Japan.
Outsourcing to China was a big mistake and it’s taken four decades to realize the consequences.
Corporate America will deserve what it gets. Hopefully then manufacturing jobs will flow back to the U.S..
American businesses need to get their business the heck out of China. It’ll be painful but it is already necessary.
Smartphones not assembled in China are usually assembled in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Turkey, Brazil, etc.
There is hardly any manufacturing of consumer electronics in high-wage developed economies.
A couple of months ago I saw an article about Whirlpool appliances and their production facilities worldwide. I may not have the exact numbers correct here, but it was pointed out that in one recent year the appliance manufacturing industry sold something like 7 million washer/dryer machines in the U.S. and 70 million in China.
Americans allowed politicians and corporate America to slit our own throats.
But, there is something Americans can do. Look at the labels. Stop or throttle back purchases of items made in China. Contact corporation’s customer service lines/inboxes lodging displeasure with their labor practices.
If millions of Americans followed that pattern, corporation would get the message.
It’s all about profit. They use slave labor or near slave labor on the cheap to increase margins.
I look at every label. If it says made in China...it goes back on the shelf. Been doing it for three decades.
“Hope is not a plan,” and it’s not just corporate America that will be punished, but all of us.
I just posted this on another thread but it fits here:
Our own state dept, chamber of commerce types, and MIC screwed America massively in two key directions over the past 30 years.
1. Russia could have been a new European ally after the fall of the USSR in 1991, but the MIC wanted to keep it as an enemy in order to keep selling billions in war materiel, including to the new Eastern European NATO countries we had promised Gorbachev would NOT join NATO. We lied, so the MIC could keep making billions in arms sales. This posture led Russia under Putin to massively rearm, and move ahead of us in several areas such as hypersonic missiles.
2. Instead of keeping our own critical industries in America, our “sell them the rope” greedy global-capitalists offshored many key industries to China to make a bigger profit margin. Now the Chinese mega-dragon has a bigger navy than our own, hypersonic missiles (we don’t) etc etc. At the same time, we let Taiwan become the key semi-conductor and chip manufacturer in the world, because it was cheaper this way. BUT, this means that Taiwan’s microchip exports may fall under Communist China’s control, and be lost to us during a blockade, further crippling our tech industries.
A primary goal of U.S. foreign policy since the 1940s has been to prevent an alliance between the USSR/Russia and China. We have screwed the pooch both ways, and driven these two Eurasian adversaries together in an alliance against us.
It is a good idea, but if you have been looking at labels for 30 years, you must have noticed the trend. It is hard/impossible to find “Made in USA”, while China and its sphere of manufacturers grows. Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia even Taiwan can really be China.
Hell, I’ll even take Mexico, now, so I guess Jorge Bush’s cockles warm a little.
>>It is hard/impossible to find “Made in USA<<
It is difficult, but I’ve been able purchase American made products and or products manufactured anywhere but communist China.
My furniture, appliances, clothing, shoes/boots, household decor and such are NOT made in China. I look at my labels and will see something I really like, turn it around and see, “made in China” and it goes back on the shelf.
If each American did a little, it would add up to allot.
I once FLAMED the crap outta Justin / Tony Lama western boot companies on social media. Received bookoo likes/responses from Americans.
Noticed in Cavenders boot store that about 60% of the off the shelf Western boots (American iconic boot) were manufactured in communist China. I wrote then in open forum on Social media.
It read, “American Western boots made in China? Are you kidding me? I will NEVER buy a Western boot made in China”.
Like Like Like...comment comment comment from hundreds of people.
Then responses came from both Justin/Tony Lama customer relations folks. We are proud of the quality of our....
Lol. It was brutal the comments regarding Chi-com made Western boots. Anyhoo, sorry for the rant but folks need to begin lodging their displeasure and curtail their purchases to change corporate cheap labor, near slave labor and or outright slave labor corporate policies.
Insane folks go on about the horrors of slavery that went on in this country all the while sporting a sleek new pair of Nike basketball shoes or sports apparel.
Did anybody really believe China was gonna blow Pelosi out of the sky...or nuke America? They play chess while Biden is playing tiddly winks. No, China is more into death by a thousand cuts.
Seems to be working.
When I get the BS from the store about the “quality” of the foreign product being the same, I usually respond that, “I want my neighbor to have a job, too.”
No, but it does give China an excuse to turn up the temperature on the frog’s waters.
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