According to Dean Yang, of the University of Michigan, most overseas contract workers are not allowed to bring family members with them.

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Moreover, their light weight makes it easy to ship them directly from overseas contract manufacturers to customers in the U.S. market, analysts say.

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By contrast, Dell competitors Apple and Hewlett-Packard have long concentrated spending heavily on design and new product development, while relying on overseas contract manufacturers to build their machines.

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By the middle of the last decade, overseas contract orders exceeded domestic sales, and the company's position as a major player in the international telecoms market was cemented.

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The previous overseas star, Australian Mark Cosgrove, has been offered a contract for the T20 Cup and Glamorgan await the batsman's response.

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Despite that, Yorkshire agreed a two-year contract with him after Sussex confirmed fellow Pakistani Mushtaq Ahmed would be their sole overseas player for 2008.

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