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Trump’s tariff threat is a sign that Canada should be diversifying beyond the U.S.
(theconversation.com)
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as an example, do you think a iphone made in china vs made in canada would be the same price? because it wouldn't be. The reason products from china are so cheap is because of cheap labor
Cheap. When is a iPhone cheap. Elastic pricing people by it they keep raising prices and pocket the money.
It is not as simple as that, as China is really good at the markets of scale strategy. We could have the same thing here in north america that could reduce the transport costs and keep the money/expertise within the continent.
Instead the companies are allowed to offshore the jobs to lower the working standards and the wages.
We used to have call centres here and yet a lot of them moved to India.
But that's the point. The only things keeping products at their prices now are keeping jobs offshore. Also the wages people would want to be paid to manufacture base goods would be quite higher than what china pays their workers (and im not saying that's a bad thing). What transport costs make it more expensive than shipping overseas?