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Thread ID: 10656 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-10-22
2003-10-22 11:43 | User Profile
I recently talked to an in-law of mine whose brother works for a supplier of medical equipment.
Recently, a large shipment of latex surgical gloves (three tractor trailers full) that had traveled from Pakistan to Malaysia (because the import tariffs are cheaper from Malaysia) reached our shores here in the States. They had one problem, 2/3 of the shipment was contaminated with fleas. They had to scrap 2/3ââ¬â¢s of the shipment after going through the expense of shipping them from Pakistan to Malaysia and then all the way to the States. Hereââ¬â¢s the kicker, they still made more money on that 1/3 of the shipment than they would have if the gloves were made in the United States.
How can you compete with that?