It is not likely to get a whole lot cheaper.

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The costs for shipping big, manufactured goods from China to the United States -- or high volumes of goods from Japan or Korea or Malaysia, or Indonesia to the United States is a lot cheaper now than it was.

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That means if the maker subsidizes the residual, it only has to reserve for the coming loss at 50 cents on the dollar, which is a lot cheaper than a few thousand dollars cash in rebates.

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