The cost of packing and shipping art out of the country is almost always higher than the royalty, Cave insists.

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Our Italian shippers say the American authorities might at random choose to examine every item in the container and if they do we bear the extra cost of re-packing and resealing.

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Still, that is a saving, and I can spread the packing cost if I get a couple of friends to order as well, but I get the any-color-as-long-as-it's-blue treatment and opt to wait for the sales.

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But smaller firms that make up the backbone of Germany's famous Mittelstand have also been packing up and moving abroad, especially into lower-cost and more flexible countries to Germany's east.

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