The first exhibit details the actual costs of building an iPhone assembled in China.
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Elaborate supply chains now span many borders: South Korean goods may be assembled in China, using machines from Japan.
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Analysts are also making the point that Japanese-made components remain integral parts of products being assembled in China, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
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And thus, because the European Union has insane trade and tariff policies, something that they would have liked to make in the UK is now assembled in China instead.
Now multiply that process by the hundreds of other similarly ubiquitous devices and gadgets: computers, Blu-Ray devices, and every other product that is designed in the United States and assembled in China from components made in the United States and elsewhere.
Even when news stories play it straight down the "he says, she says, " line, who, as a parent, are you going to believe: the company protesting that its toy, usually assembled in China, is just fine and dandy, or the "watchdog" group warning that it's frighteningly dangerous and waving a test to prove it?
The car, built on Mitsubishi-designed underpinnings, will be assembled into modules in China, then shipped to a factory near Oxnard, Calif. to be completed.
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But studies by the New York Federal Reserve Bank and others show that most Chinese imports are intermediate goods that are assembled into finished products in China and then sent to foreign markets.
But it is assembled by British contractors rather than in China.
Two of the world's biggest clusters of manufacturers are in northern Greece and southern China, where pelts are cut and assembled into garments and accessories, often in family-run businesses.
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