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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Actually ... China's costs have gone up significantly in recent years and more and more companies are looking to other nations for cheap labour. Some say that Mexico and China are nearly equal on build cost now, but transportation speed and cost from Mexico to North or South America is significantly less than from China.
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I worked a project a few years back to move a production line to Juarez. First tour of the new facility I asked the ops manager what the labor cost were "...wages and benefits, about $2.00 an hour..." We had a proposal to automated 70-85% of what it took to build the product but competing against a manual operation with that labor cost, we couldn't get any funding. The payback just wasn't there.
Yeah, if transportation logistics permit, I would add India to the list.