[RegulatorCountry]

Where was this astounding cost savings to the US consumer, when manufacturing of most everything was sent offshore? I don’t recall it. Do you?

[central_va]

If you, a manufacturer, can shave 5-8% off production cost you would have three choices to make:

1. Pass all of it to you customers.
2. Pass part of it on to your customers and keep some for profit.
3. Keep all of it as profit.

Well 1. wouldn't make sense. What would be the point of offshoring if your bottom line remains the same? If you are doing just to keep up with your competition and your bottom line profit remains the same then the whole offshoring experiment thing is simply a way of making Americans unemployed. Really sick sh+!.

Option 2. might make sense, throw a point or two at your customer. Would they even notice?

Option 3 is the more likely. Would the international stockholders stand for giving away profit to the customers? That would be outrageous to them.

[riverdawg]

The 100% cotton shirt on your back, perhaps made in Vietnam, may have cost you $40 or $50. If made in the USA, it would cost you $100 or more. Most of us aren’t willing to pay that much for a shirt. When it comes to foreign-made consumer goods, the “enemy” is us.