The share of parts and components in its imports is, however, falling.
Even worse from a non-proliferation point of view, is Section 301(c) which prohibits the control of U.S. parts or components if the item is assembled overseas.
Further, by creating global vehicle platforms, Ford maximizes the use of as many shared parts and components across as many lines as possible to lower overall costs.
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The relaxation of rules on the origins of cars is to ease the concerns of major foreign investors manufacturing cars in Korea, considering their heavy dependence on foreign parts and components.
Many factors go into the cost of producing a product, and in the past many companies became enamored with the cheap prices they could have parts and components produced, completely ignoring the total cost calculation.
The draft treaty does not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms, parts and components and to regulate arms brokers.
The next generation iPads are expected to be available in the next 3-4 months as makers in the supply chain have started delivering parts and components for the new tablets to OEM contractors while reducing those prepared for iPad 2, according to sources in the supply chain.
There is still a chance for Welsh companies to supply components and parts to Jaguar Land Rover.
We got very good at understanding the parts and optimizing the components.
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The Italian contribution to Venus Express will chiefly consist of a series of spare parts for various spacecraft components and a financial contribution.
Rather than reengineering parts, it shares components among many models.
Its components and parts help make German industry competitive.
The SIM card ejector tool in some North American first-generation iPads was made of Liquidmetal, and since then, Keller said, it's been used in a number of other internal parts and small mechanical components.
An odd way of kicking the tires, perhaps--unlike that of any of the seven previous potential buyers who visited privately held Plastron Industries, the maker of "bobbins, " thermoplastic parts for wound electronic components such as coils.
Although little known in the West until a spate of factory suicides in 2009 brought the company notoriety, Foxconn makes components, parts and assembles devices for many of the world's largest electronics companies including Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Analysts are also making the point that Japanese-made components remain integral parts of products being assembled in China, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
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The factories make components and assemble parts for car manufacturers.
All told, the final product is comprised of more than 200 custom-made parts, a series of components that includes everything from the kickstand to the dual MIMO antennas.
With more emotion than sense, electronic components, machine parts and even towels made far from Fukushima have required radiation checks or been turned back by Italy and China, among others.
It consists of 359 movement components, including 167 parts for the Gyroscopic gravity control module.
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All the other parts are purchased and the critical components like the barrel and bolt and springs are all metal.
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In the heyday of conglomerates, AVM had 15 divisions, making everything from auto parts and furniture to air-conditioning components.
These components are combined with electrical parts that are also "made by Volkswagen, " such as the lithium-ion battery in the center tunnel and the 54-hp front and 114-hp rear electric motors.
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So when the 27-year-old director built a new office for his family companies -- Rathi Transpower and Polybond India, which make rubber components and water-pump parts -- executives got a meal allowance instead of a waitered room.
One big change might be its use of carbon fiber components, like injection-molded parts that can be churned out in a couple of minutes.
The designers of the plant at Chena, however, managed to slash their capital outlay by substituting mass-produced parts from air-conditioners for the bespoke components of most geothermal plants.
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India taxes partly-assembled auto parts by up to 100%, while unassembled components are taxed at 10%, a measure meant to encourage local manufacturing.
This means mixing and matching components so that the same engineering and parts can be combined like Lego to produce a wide range of different vehicles.
Since then he's announced plans for a potential spinoff of part of Ford's Hertz rental-car subsidiary, and in May Ford agreed to buy back 24 plants from Visteon, its troubled former parts operation, to ensure the delivery of critical components.
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