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发帖数: 6973 | 1 My comment: There is no startling revelation in either report; just what we
have known all along, for the past year or so.
(1) Simon Rabinovitch, Manufacturers in Wenzhou Adapt to the Changing Times;
China industries; Producers focus on improved quality as rising labour
costs squeeze margins. Financial Times, July 11, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0
/d2fa5d16-aadc-11e0-b4d8-00144feabdc0.html
Quote:
"Five years ago, 80 per cent of the world’s lighters were produced in
Wenzhou, and many of the world’s shoes and spectacles too. The city’s
share of the global lighter market remains large but is losing ground,
having slipped to about 70 per cent.
"Wanshun [Glasses] produced 2m glasses at its peak a few years ago and was
now down to annual output of 500,000, focusing on making better frames that
could fetch a higher price, he [its manager] said.
Down the road, the manager of Weihong Women’s Shoes
Note:
(a) Wenzhou Zhongbang Smoking Set Co, Ltd 温州市中邦烟具制造有限公司
http://wzzhongbang.cn.alibaba.com/
(b) Wenzhou Wanshun Glasses Co, Ltd 温州市万顺眼镜有限公司
(2) Randal C Archibald, Despite Violence, Mexico Plants Hum at Border; Drug
wars, shootouts and a fear of random death, but also a jobs surge. New York
Times, July 11, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/world/americas
/11matamoros.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=mexico%20war&st=cse
Quote:
"Over all, jobs in Mexico’s manufacturing sector increased 8.2 percent to 1
.8 million as of January, the most recent figures available, driven mostly
by what Mexican officials called regaining health in the auto and
electronics industries, the engine of the economy along the border. * * *
Mostly American-owned and in border states, the plants import raw materials
duty free and export assembled products
"Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm that makes iPhones, Dell computers and other
electronics, is one of several Asian companies taking root. It opened a
plant in Juárez last summer.
"Business is business, and the proximity to the United States is hard to
pass up. The rising cost of labor, transportation and the renminbi have made
some companies reconsider Mexico instead of China, he [Bob Cook, the
president of the El Paso Regional Economic Development Commission [sic]]
contended. * * * 'Central location, great infrastructure, suppliers and
labor pool,' he said.
Note:
(a) "The name Matamoros, meaning Moor-killer or Moor-slayer in Spanish, * *
*"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matamoros
, refers to the only border city in Mexico of that name:
Matamoros, Tamaulipas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matamoros,_Tamaulipas
(on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from
Brownsville, Texas)
I double check. Spellman does has plants at Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
(b) maquiladora (n; Mexican Spanish from maquilar to process (material) for
a fee):
" a foreign-owned factory in Mexico at which imported parts are assembled by
lower-paid workers into products for export"
www.m-w.com
(c) El Paso Regional Economic Development Corporation (REDCo)
http://www.elpasoredco.org/about
("a nonprofit corporation providing confidential, no-fee consultation to
businesses interested in relocating or expanding their operations to El Paso
, Texas; Cd. Juárez, México; and Southern New Mexico region")
The NYT report erroneously identifies it as "El Paso Regional Economic
Development Commission"--the word commission sounds official.
(d) Hauppauge, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge,_New_York
(a hamlet in Suffolk County, Long Island of New York state; Its name derives
from the Native American Algonquian term for "overflowed land.") |
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