Re: [iht] The Workplace: Robots in low-cost lands

"pluto" quoted ...
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Wages are certainly not irrelevant in carmaking. Leveraging its relatively
low wages, the GM plant here exports cars around Southeast Asia and to
Australia, the Middle East and Mexico. But distance has a downside, too.
It
costs about $700 to ship a car to Australia and about $1,100 to ship one
to
the Middle East, mitigating the advantage of low- cost labor. Long
distances also may frustrate customers because of the lag between ordering
a car and delivery.

"That's why you want to sell where you build and build where you sell,"
Botwick said. GM has built nearly identical factories in China, Latin
America, Poland and the United States. By the same logic, Japanese
carmakers have built factories across the United States in recent years.

So, yes, pluto, Vietnam will get Japanese and US manufacturer's pickup truck
assembly lines---but not at Thailand's expense, LOL! ;~)




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