We have to balance cost of shipping final products with the cost of shipping components vs labor cost s vs quality vs many other factors.

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For both foreign and domestic carmakers, the U.S. has become a more attractive place to assemble vehicles for sale in other countries for multiple reasons: currency exchange rates that effectively lowered U.S. labor costs, new free-trade pacts, high quality and available plant capacity.

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We have compared the total landed cost to Chicago of labor, transportation, taxes, quality and inventory carrying costs for outsourced manufacturing in 4 countries: U.S., China, Cambodia and Brazil.

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