Good question. I don't know.
Labor so cheap that even with tariffs companies still profit perhaps? I'm assuming there are tariffs on goods imported from there.
“...I think people predicted NAFTA would result in a lot of jobs going to Mexico and some certainly did but why did so many go to China?...
Good question. I don’t know.
Labor so cheap that even with tariffs companies still profit perhaps? I’m assuming there are tariffs on goods imported from there.”
This has bothered me for some time. Why would stuff be so cheap from Chine unless there is a fix in somewhere. The shipping costs should — one would expect — would add to the cost. I’ve often wondered why the greenies haven’t pointed out the energy costs in shipping boatloads of cheap consumer goods which are generally of poor quality and soon discarded and replaced. Why is every pair of shoes, jeans, pliers, pots and pans manufactured in China and shipped 2,000 miles? How can they possibly believe that the whole of the US would be sitting at desk jobs counting stuff and as a nation — or even georgraphic region — not produce anything and pay our bills?