Apart from the cost advantages of manufacturing offshore, especially
in Asia, there are other advantages. Manufacturing is an area filled
with risk and aggravation. Liability, health and safety , staff
training, specialist and expensive skills, etc. if you import rather
than manufacture, then you miss out on all that and just have
logistics and storage to worry about - which you would have had
anyway. Warehouse staff are a lot easier to get and cheaper than
toolmakers, diesetters, etc.
Geoff