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They say their work schedule is dictated by ever-increasing production goals, like those 600 pairs of pants at the Jordan Dragon factory.
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Ethiopia's comparative advantage in wages, productivity, and natural resources has led the Huajian Group, a Chinese shoe maker, to build a factory in Ethiopia in three months, with two production lines starting in January 2012, exporting 20, 000 pairs of shoes a month and creating some 550 jobs.
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Ryan creates all the designs, sources all his own leathers, mainly from Italy and the US, and has his boots painstakingly handmade by a team of fastidious Mexican bootmakers, 16 people whose total production is 8 or 9 pairs a day.
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