Looking over the table of “Where my Stuff Comes” I noticed that China is a very popular and common place in which the things I own come from. Especially in the personal belonging section. Every item in this category of the chart came from China.I chose things completely different from each other to purposely avoid a familiar trend but to my surprise that did not work. China seems to make an array of different things for cheap and then send their products to the United States where the prices increase tremendously. It is easy to understand as to why these things come from China. A lot of our personal belongings are things that we need and/or want and are in high demand. Therefore, China is the manufacturer to these items as they are the cheapest …show more content…
Those things include my laptop, playstation, and cell phone which have the price range between $200-$1,000. The United States have things exported from China for several reasons. However, the most significant reasons are because it saves the U.S. money because labor costs are cheaper in China. The United States also makes extremely high profits due to the price increase the products sale for. If the United States manufactured the products Americans tend to want/need then they would lose money because of the labor and material costs are rather high compared to China. Some clothing that I own such as exercise shorts which were made in Cambodia were pretty cheap. This can be for a number of reasons but the most obvious one is the material used to produce the shorts as well as the quality of them. The material used is not extremely terrible but it is definitely not the best. The shorts were worn a few times before the seams began to come apart. The elastic bands in the waist have lost elasticity after being worn just a few times as well. As it can be seen the more expensive things come from certain countries and the cheaper ones come from a different set of …show more content…
The cheap shorts which were made in Cambodia are sold at Wal-Mart for only $10 as an off brand. The shoes known as Jack Rogers which were made in China would never be seen sold in a place like Wal-Mart but instead a higher end clothing store like Nordstrom. Places that do not sell higher end things like the Jack Rogers, but will have their own cheaper version. The only exception to this would be when it relates to my iphone. Wal-Mart does sell this phone but it is usually sold on a contract through Verizon or other cellular companies. However, a phone such as the iphone or other popular expensive phone would not be seen in a store like Dollar
With the continued rise of consumer "needs" in "industrial" countries such as the United States, and the consistently high price that corporations must pay to produce goods in these countries, companies are looking to "increase (their) profits by driving down costs any way possible... To minimize costs, companies look for places with the lowest wages and human rights protections" (Dosomething). Countries with lax or unenforced labor laws grant multinational corporations the leeway to use cheap foreign labor to mass-produce their commodities so that they can be sold in countries like America. These inexpensive, sometimes borderline illegal, establishments are known as sweatshops. In his book Timmerman discusses the topic of sweatshops in great detail. Originally in search of "where (his) T-shirt was made(;) (Timmerman) (went) to visit the factory where it was made and (met) the people who made (it)" (Timmerman5).
In "A dollar a Day:Made In China" we meet Wayne Petersen and Li Jieli. Wayne Patterson was an ex- miner who lives in minnesota. In the beggining of the film we see Wayne in Target looking through the different merchandise they are selling and see that most of the products are made in China; Wayne does not want to buy the products because all of the manufacturing jobs are going to China were workers over in China are looking at more job oppourtunites while Wayne and people in his community are loosing thier jobs. Li-Jieli is a young women from China who is forced to work in a factory that makes parts for electronics. Li Jieli had to leave home at 17 years old to improve her and her families living conditions. Li had to give up her edu...
Corporations in the United States have proved time and time again that they are all about profit and not about what is good for America. One example of this is the fact that many corporations have factories in other countries, or buy from other corporations that do. Nike (an athletic shoe and clothing company) produces most of their shoes and apparel in factories in other countries, including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, China, Vietnam and Malaysia. According to Nike’s factory disclosure list released May 2011, only 49 of it’s over 700 factories are located in the U.S. (Nike, Inc.) This means that thousands of jobs that could be filled by needy Americans are instead being filled by workers in other countries. This reason that Nike and other corporations outsource is very simple, it is very cheap to do so. In an excerpt from Jeffrey St. Clair's book “Born Under a Bad Sky” the author describes the vast differences between Nike’s production costs and retail prices. “In Vietnam, it costs Nike only $1.50 to manufactu...
When America's cotton is sent to China, it is made into T-shirts in the sweatshops of China by laborers working 12-hour days and being paid subsistence wages. When the finished T-shirts re-enter the U.S., they are protected by the government through subsidies, tariffs, taxes, and protectionist policies that ensure that these foreign products will not provide too much competition to American-made shirts. Government regulations control how many T-shirt can be imported from various countrie...
Most Apple products are far too expensive for China. For example, a MacBook that is available at the Apple store can cost about the same as the average city-based Chinese worker earns in a year and that adds up to about $2,000. It is more than just price and Apple succeeds because customers love the products and the brand. Apple initially demanded a big two-digit percentage of carriers' wireless revenue as a condition for granting its coveted exclusivity deal; acc...
In china, for example, Wal-Mart’s importing operations have significantly affected the manufacturing sector in a manner that gradually unemployment has been stimulated (Holmes 1). The trade deficit between Wal-Mart and China have led to a loss of almost one hundred and thirty- three employment opportunities, especially with Wal-Mart importations. Despite China’s efforts of trying to purchase United States’ treasury bills along with federal securities in an effort to reduce the exportation costs to America, Wal-Mart’s entry into the Chinese market has propelled china’s labor abuse along with internal violations of recognized trade norms (Fishman 1). This is caused by the retail’s growing and vast conduit that allows the distribution of subsidized and cheap Chinese exports to the doorsteps of United States’ market (Neumark, Junfu, and Stephen
...oes not dominate the entire market. The Chinese market is so large that even an e-commerce giant like Alibaba is unable to capture the entire market. Here are some other players who are in the market as well:
The sheer number of offshore apparel production factories makes regulation of labor practices difficult, and the fact that the factories may be in different countries compounds the labor regulation problem even further. Simply put, it is often difficult to determine where a garment is actually made”(Cheek & Moore). The workers in these factories are often paid less than minimum wage and work in unsafe environments. One article spoke about a factory saying “the workers assembling iPads and other Apple devices in a factory owned by Foxconn Technology Group 2 in Chengdu, China were not only paid less than the statutory minimum wage but they regularly worked 12 hours a day, six days a week while being exposed to toxic chemicals and other potentially deadly safety hazards as well. 3 Disregard for workers’ health at the factory was sufficiently widespread that some employees were required to remain on their feet for so long at their workstations that their legs swelled until they could hardly walk: “‘It’s hard to stand all day,’ said Zhao Sheng, a plant worker’””(Kates). Another ethical issue that is very common in sweatshops is child labor. The International Labor Organization has estimated that “250
...goods. According to the World Trade Organization International Trade Statistics 2013, between 2005 and 2012 Asia’s worldwide exports manufactures increased from 31.7 % to 38.5% while North America’s decreased from 15.1% to 13.8% (WTO 80). Granted this is manufactured products as a whole rather than by commodity but it represents a trend regarding manufactured goods where Asia’s exports are increasing while North America’s exports are decreasing. This indicates that that manufacturing is continues to move from North America to Asia.
Recent studies have shown that the Chinese consumers care more about what brand the product is, than almost anyone else in the world. A Harris Interactive Survey of young Chinese and American adults in year 2011 found that 72% of Chinese respondents considered “brand name” to be an important factor when purchasing clothes (Siegel, 2013). This reflects the conspicuous consumption condition in China that Chinese buy luxury products basically in order to highlight social status and their wealth.
How U.S. Companies Decide Where To Locate Their Chinese Factories - Julie Irwin Zimmerman - The Atlantic Cities. 2014. How U.S. Companies Decide Where To Locate Their Chinese Factories - Julie Irwin Zimmerman - The Atlantic Cities. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/03/how-us-companies-decide-where-build-their-chinese-factories/1412/.
Our secondary research identified several key themes, all of which support the hypothesis that a product’s country-of-origin plays a significant role in the purchase decision process. These findings are summarized below:
The Chinese economic empire is one of the largest trading partners of the United States. China is progressing steadily from a period of stagnation with an average growth rate of 10% per year. They create the bulk of the products what is usual for people today, such as iPhones, iPads, and other technology for inexpensive products that seems tenuous. Many o...
China has been an area which has shown growth in sales for Electrolux. China is often viewed as the largest market for household appliances in the world (Electrolux, 2018). China is the largest market because of the rapidly emerging middle class, and fast-paced urbanization. The Chinese middle-class are buying more and more homes, and the demand for premium appliances continues to grow. Haier Group and Midea are two domestic appliance manufactures who tend to dominate the appliance market in China. Electrolux can compete with these two companies by investing time and money into the premium market. A strong focus on the rapidly growing middle class, and focusing on selling products through large retailers will continue to contribute to Electrolux’s success in China.
China has also expanded their trading industries with countries such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, ASEAN, India, Russia and Hong Kong. This has not satisfied the Chinese greed for income as they also export and import goods to American countries, name...