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Re: selling to China
By:Mike Savage
Date: 3/26/2008, 6:39 am
In Response To: Re: selling to China (Chris Ostlind)

: Yes, Brad, TO China. You recognize the game and the opponent and you adjust
: your strategy accordingly. You want access to that huge market and they
: have some quirky rules... you make the stuff there for their use. You make
: profits and get yourself into a market that you otherwise had no ability
: to access.

: Kinda like baseball when the other guy is all about curveballs and all you
: want to hit are fastballs. You either make the adjustment, or you find a
: place on the bench. Right now, there are literally hundreds of American
: companies who have made that very adjustment and they are banging sales
: from the Asian region that would boggle the mind.

: Is it as comfy as sitting back in Sandusky and watching the needle drop...
: no, but it is a business in which you have experience and it is a thriving
: marketplace. This is a global trade environment and those who get global
: get with the program.

Hi Chris,
To sell 'easily' in China, you basically have to be IN China. Or at least, a significant amount of your product must be made in China. Good for jobs in China but not in your home country. The tariffs and restrictions in China for 'foreign' business negates the whole idea of a global trade environment.

Personally speaking, I generally don't mind where a product is made, within my ethical standards, as long as the quality is good. I don't have much truck with cheap goods as they don't last. Inexpensive is acceptable, that implies quality at low cost. (Hard to do with cheap labour)

Mike Savage
South West Cork

Messages In This Thread

Other: Kayaks Made in China *LINK*
Duane Strosaker -- 3/22/2008, 11:50 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal *LINK*
Bryan Hansel -- 3/24/2008, 7:57 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/25/2008, 1:04 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bryan Hansel -- 3/25/2008, 9:11 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/26/2008, 12:45 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bryan Hansel -- 3/26/2008, 8:08 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/27/2008, 7:47 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Mike Savage -- 3/27/2008, 8:49 am
Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/27/2008, 7:30 pm
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/28/2008, 11:24 am
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 10:55 am
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/28/2008, 11:28 am
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 5:40 pm
Re: Kayaks/'cycles made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/28/2008, 10:27 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China - Rebuttal
Bill Hamm -- 3/27/2008, 4:18 pm
Sad... *NM*
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 3/24/2008, 9:39 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Chris Ostlind -- 3/24/2008, 7:11 am
Re: selling to China
Brad -- 3/25/2008, 8:52 pm
Re: selling to China
Chris Ostlind -- 3/25/2008, 9:10 pm
Re: selling to China
Mike Savage -- 3/26/2008, 6:39 am
Re: selling to China
Chris Ostlind -- 3/26/2008, 9:50 am
China is just people
Jay Babina -- 3/25/2008, 12:39 pm
Re: China is just people
Rob W -- 3/25/2008, 6:01 pm
Re: China is just people
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/25/2008, 2:46 pm
Are we smarter then a monkey?
John Monroe -- 3/25/2008, 3:34 am
Re: Are we smarter then a monkey?
Bill Hamm -- 3/26/2008, 12:39 am
Re: Are we smarter then a monkey?
John Monroe -- 3/26/2008, 3:48 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Robert N Pruden -- 3/24/2008, 8:37 pm
I still eat eggs
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/27/2008, 9:33 pm
Re: I still eat eggs
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 10:53 am
Re: I still eat eggs
watiger -- 3/28/2008, 11:56 am
Re: I still eat eggs
Bill Hamm -- 3/28/2008, 5:39 pm
Re: I still eat eggs
charlie r -- 3/27/2008, 9:49 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 3/24/2008, 11:55 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Etienne Muller -- 3/24/2008, 1:58 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Bill Hamm -- 3/24/2008, 12:47 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Mike Savage -- 3/23/2008, 8:11 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Andy Waddington -- 3/26/2008, 11:25 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Kim -- 3/23/2008, 8:49 am
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China
Kim -- 3/23/2008, 12:22 pm
Re: Other: Kayaks Made in China *NM*
Mike Savage -- 3/23/2008, 12:35 pm
Link doesn't work for me! *NM*
Glen Smith -- 3/23/2008, 2:00 am