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Originally Posted by SkullWorks
I support Aerospace (JPL, Boeing, SpaceX, Northrup etc etc etc)
I also supply custom automotive products, per your design or mine, prototype or short run production.
The fact that it isn't reality is people like you would rather abuse (er employ) foreign labor and support the problem...I'll refrain from covering the human rights issues, the american jobless rate issues, or the fact that you are here claiming to run a auto parts company but so far haven't shared what company it is you own that is so large you have your own chinese factory...
How much 1/2" 304 stainless would you like I have bar stock square stock and plate all DFAR compliant and milled in either the USA or a European company who recognizes the same quality protocols as the rest of the first world...did I mention you get what you pay for...and based on your previous statements about having to replace bad product and send back whole containers of material....it sounds like maybe YOU and YOUR CUSTOMERS already know that...
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We are certainly getting way off topic here.
Based on your comments my estimation is that firstly you have very little experience with global supply chain or sourcing either in Aerospace or Automotive, have probably never even set foot much less owned equity in overseas manufacturing, and certainly very little experience with China based manufacturing since you seem to be merely parroting what the MSM is telling you without clear understanding of the fundamental micro economics that goes behind outsourcing or the macro economics of a US economic policy that supports said outsourcing through debt creation - but neither of these topics are reasonable for this thread.
To claim that less than half the components of any modern automobile don't come from China is simply naivete and ignorance. Even more advanced materials such as turbine and compressor wheels for automobiles are today produced in China, some machined and inspected in Japan (such as IHI or Garrett) and then sold as made in XXX. Even in the aerospace business much of the components outsourced to Japan originated from China, do you think the majority of the dreamliner components are made stateside? I argue no. Of course you still have defense related components built mostly here in the US, but I guess that's where you get what you pay for with a P&W F135 reportedly costing more than $30 mil/unit. Your average consumer good is made in China and consumers prefer to pay much less for a slightly shittier product than much more for a slightly better product.