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Re:Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’ by adrianmonk on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:47PM (#26962116)
Depends on how long it continues. If demand is back to normal in 2 months and it takes 3 months to ramp up your manufacturing, then you'll be too late to get any benefit from this.
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Re:Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’ by sokoloff on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:49PM (#26962960)
It’s not just your manufacturing steps, but you need all your upstream suppliers to also be local. There are reasons well beyond just price for a lot of electronics development to be done in and around Shenzhen.
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Re:Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’ by lazide on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:51PM (#26962172)
Even worse, you’ll have blown however many million $ it took to ramp up production.
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