In addition to the 25 percent import tax, the cost of manufacture is still higher in the United States than in China, and the costs of shipping will also add to the cost.

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It recommends building an international consensus on the differential pricing of patented pharmaceuticals, meaning that poor countries would have access to expensive drugs at the cost of manufacture, rather than paying the far higher rates charged in rich countries.

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Check out the cost of the bulb from the manufacture (do not ask the salesman) and if the cost of the service plan is less then one bulb, buy at least a short two-year warranty.

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Boeing outsourced 60% of its design and manufacture which was intended to lower the cost of making it and improve the quality.

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For two, considering the producers in Greece and Ireland, a stronger euro would in fact reduce wage pressures, the cost of imported inputs necessary to produce what they manufacture, plus it would reduce shipping costs.

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If we can move a particular piece of medical care (or education, entertainment) from being a service to being a manufacture then we have moved it from the cost disease side of the problem over to where it benefits from the continually improving productivity of manufacturing.

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The only real way of bending that health care cost curve is to mechanise, to turn health care into a manufacture not a service.

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