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The company purchases huge volumes of earths (like brown and white fused alumina), which are their raw material manufacturing inputs.
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We are committing economic self-flagellation by ignoring antidumping reform in this country, where 80 percent of all antidumping measures in place restrict crucial manufacturing inputs.
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In addition, Sinopec's petrochemical business (resins, synthetic fibers, rubber) is also growing at a double-digit rate, with production continuing to expand to meet robust industrial demand for these essential manufacturing inputs.
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That means that the main financial benefit to China takes the form of wages paid for the assembly of the product or for manufacturing of some of the inputs.
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From 1985-2003 I watched manufacturing move from numerous places, with its varied and numerous inputs, at numerous levels of the value chain, to the one place that could handle it all.
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These raw material inputs are used to make many processed products in a number of primary manufacturing industries, including steel, aluminum and various chemical industries.
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Though they seemingly skirt over the broad truth that American businesses manufacture more than ever with less in the way of labor inputs than ever (the definition of productivity), they note that in 1950 manufacturing employed 31% of all Americans while comprising 27% of GDP.
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