SV: [AT] Re: Chinese Iron

[Mattias Kessén]

This is just one example of why the textile industry in North
Carolina is virtually gone now....

Over here it disappeared in the 50'-70's so if you want some swedish
clothing it will have to be some kind of "haute coture" (or however it's
spelled) and even the the textile is made somewhere else. Recently I
happened to speak to a guy that has worked for HM (Hennes & Mauritz big
swedish clothing company, the major stock owner is the biggest taxpayer in
Sweden) and we discussed margins. He said that they bought thongs (is that
the right word we didn't learn that much about ladiesunderwear at our
englishlessons, anyway it's the very minimalistic kind) in China. He had us
guessing how much the costed there. We guessed and there was bids between
4-20 Kronas. (0.50-2.50$) Btw here they cost 100-150 Kronas (12-18$).
	He just laughed and told us they used to pay 17 Öre, about two cent at the
factory in China. shipping can't be that high on something that weighs
almost nothing and needs almost no space. Try to beat that price. I don't
think you can stop the trade from China but you need to find things to sell
to them, almost all countries including Sweden have a positive
tradingbalance with China, including Sweden. But theres one big exception...
the USA.

/Mattias


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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]För Gerald Johnson
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I once had a client that was a glove manufacturer that sold 100% "American
Made" gloves and took pride in sewing that "made in America" label in each
glove.  Then they found that under the laws governing the use of the label,
only one small step in the glove making process was required to be performed
in this country.  As it turned out, their competitors were having their
gloves made in Mexico and shipped to the USA complete except for one small
area on the thumb.  When the gloves got here, each pair had a few stitches
put in the thumb and then they could legally put the "made in America" label
inside.  My client refused to do that and eventually lost most of its
business.   I sometimes wondered if the law could be stretched far enough so
that the sewing in of the label itself would qualify the item as "made in
America"!   This is just one example of why the textile industry in North
Carolina is virtually gone now.

Gerald
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> Oh, just in case you guys would like to know, the LeRoy company was who I
> was working for and changing tags. They are no longer in business here. I
am
> not sure if the company is still up and running. They made LeRoy socks and
> hosery.
> Irma
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