Posted on 06/16/2021 12:00:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase
This photo collage is from a knife manufacturer in China that I have hosted on imagebb. The full image will be posted below in the first comment.
https://i.ibb.co/px3SrHy/r-BVa-EFc-Jx-VGAEG2-XAAMukmyn-YXY054.jpg
Here is the same photo from the original source.
https://www.dhresource.com/0x0/f2/albu/g4/M01/42/93/rBVaEFcJxVGAEG2XAAMukmynYXY054.jpg
Here is my interpretation:
Obtain an original US product, disassemble it and scan the pieces into a CAD program.
Send the CAD data to a CNC milling machine which will replicate the product components to virtually identical specs. Obviously cheaper raw materials are used but in some cases the same quality material is used which produces a virtual clone.
Use cheap labor to mill any other parts needed.
Assemble the product using labor at a fraction of US labor cost.
Sell product in the US at a price that severely undercuts US competition and forces the majority of hard goods manufacturers out of business.
You can‘t test quality into a product. If dumping more product onto shore becomes unaffordable, better workers are needed.
The right labor is now at a premium in China.
If technology continues to improve there may come a time when a huge company creates an artificial island somewhere so there is no “country” to tax and regulate them.
Actually, in a very real way, that is just a natural shift. At the end of the day, the US is just another country. Sure, we got rich rebuilding the world after WWII, but they are rebuilt - and now competing with us. Why should an American worker get $25 an hour when someone in another country will do the same work for $6? That is literally what free trade and free enterprise is all about. It just doesn’t feel good when it gores ones particular ox.
These are the type of Chinese made knives you see advertised on Facebook with the phony Japanese lettering and the laser etched Damascus finish.
Makes sense.
The killer thing is . . .
over the past few months, I’ve been replacing some things that needed replacing.
90% of the boxes they have been packaged in read “Made in China”.
Any and all electronics, auto parts, Vacuum, lighting, storage items, minor furniture pieces, dishware etc . . .
The US factories are gone or closed.
FWIW - Big and Small
Got a great couch for the play room from the “This End Up” Artisan Collection.
Very solid, US made, looks great.
Best Can Opener EVUH! from EZ-Duz-It.
got 5 and gave some to family (that’s me,. the Big Spender!)
some great stuff is still made here.
You forget that there are middle men in the US and Canada that set this up. An American has a product, let’s say a guitar. Designs it and has it built over there. It could be a Martin Knock off, or a special design.
I avoid, as much as possible anything made in China. I never buy any fresh groceries from China... ie fish etc.
It seems that into Trump’s third year, I was seeing more and more from our hemisphere and other places.
DJT was on to this and was going to tax the Chicoms to level the playing field. However, the Marxists did not want fair trading policies and undermined the election.
My father was invited to review their largest dam project while it was still being poured as part of the professional engineering ASCE Concrete Board. Saw a row of 10 concrete batch mixers: 3 were painted in their original Dutch colors, two working. The third had been stripped down, dis-assembled, and copied. The next 7 concrete plants were in identical Chinese green paint. All running.
A competitor turbine company’s field engineer told me they shipped the complex blade packages for a new power plant turbine (900 Megawatt) to China. But it got hung up” in customs for a three weeks. Was received on site, all the carefully gas-tight shrink-wrapped plastic ripped off and removed from one of every blade set. Wiped off of the preservatives, then put back in the cartons and shipping crates. Obviously removed, cleaned, 3D microscoped and scanned and measured, then re-packages.
They never made another sales again in China. Always got underbid by the local Chinese company for some reason.
More like - an American Fortune 500 corporation decided to off shore it's kitchen utensil manufacturing to China to shave a quarter of a penny off the manufacturing costs and to get away from the union that shut their production line down for 71/2 months during the last strike.
So they transferred their production technology to China and shipped all their production machinery to China, giving them a 51% stake in the company as per Chinese law.
After getting several years of shoddy goods from China, the corp closed their cooking utensil division and began buying their knives from a Chinese company made up of the more skilled Chinese employees of their defunct manufacturing division.
Their biggest competitor is the same company above who is manufacturing their own line of superior , yet cheaper knives knocked off from the Fortune 500 companies defunct product line.
Gee, hard to tell who is winning
And prior to the mills moving South they were in the Northeast, especially Lowell,MA——and they moved South to avoid unionization.
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There was a reason why the Founders had tariffs as the anticipated primary source of federal revenue.
Trump haters are OK with that plan because the assume they will do the accounting and other white collar type jobs associated with the colonies.
They will steal anything that they want. It’s their culture and has been for thousands of years................
The “Lowell girls”.
“If you own a million slaves, you own the slaves, but if you own a billion slaves, the slaves own you”, to paraphrase a saying about banks and debt.
Heck -- I'm even starting to see clothing products show up from eastern European countries like Slovenia, Hungary, etc.
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