Re:Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbo...
by empath75 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:44AM
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Even if they assembled them elsewhere, most of the parts and raw materials would have to come from China these days.
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Re:Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbo...
by NeedMoreTea on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:54AM
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In the early days of Chinese manufacturing they would have been importing most.
Suppliers tend to cluster where manufacturers are, and import specialist parts. Of course as you just posted in the other comment, CO2 taxes reflecting the full environmental costs would tend to encourage more clustering, more local production, and generally buying less wastefully.
As popular as plague no doubt, but stuff needs to get expensive again. Perhaps better to say "expensive enough".