Made in America: small businesses buck the offshoring trend

[ryoder 1,590]

An interesting article recently published in Wired magazine about the business problems with offshoring:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/in-early-2010-somewhere-high.ars

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[Lefty 0]

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An interesting article recently published in Wired magazine about the business problems with offshoring:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/in-early-2010-somewhere-high.ars

I'm not sure "buck" is the right word. If it were more beneficial, in a holistic sense, for the companies in the article to maintain their Chinese connections, you can be sure they would. Still, it's nice to see business concerns, not political concerns, sway the trend.

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

Earphones are not a product I am likely to chose primarily on price. Makes sense that they chose to pay for improved quality.

[airdvr 210]

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Each earphone costs roughly 50 percent more to produce in Florida than in China.

As long as this situation is allowed to go unchecked we won't be manufacturing much here. First step would be to somehow force China to stop playing games with the valuation of their currency. Second would be to repeal some of the EPA requirements here in the states that make manufacturing so undesirable.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[ryoder 1,590]

On a related story: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/06/mccain-flunks-made-in-america-101/

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.