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Re: USA parts and China parts
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Posted by 26Red on August 18, 2003 at 11:34:19 from (170.92.1.104):
In Reply to: USA parts and China parts posted by Steve Mason on August 18, 2003 at 09:23:29:
I work in the manufacturing industry as a engineer. China is the hot topic in all the industry magazines... We can't compete even with our new technology. It is cheaper to have a casting made and machined in China, than it is for me to buy it here in the US and machine it at our company. China has 30% tariffs on imports with the US has 3% on Chinese imports. My company has also seen spin offs of our own product from China- they were more like exact xerox copies. It took a while for management to wake up and start reguluating what parts gets quoted by Chinese companies. Most of the time management is concerned with the bottom line of the company- stock prices...I doubt things will change on a corporate level. About the only thing I can do is try to further automate the manufacturing processes in the plant to reduce costs.. which creates more high tech jobs for the guys running the equipment(good). I have already realized I will not retire in this industry, it will probably end up in Mexico.. so I'm looking at other ventures. When will the government wake up and realize free trade is not going to help the US base of the economy??? We are digging hole we will never get out of. We are selling ourselves out of a JOB!!! Sorry for the rant... but I had to vent.
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