"nestork" wrote in message
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Wages in Cuba are low, and they are located very much closer to the US
mainland, and so US companies would not have to pay the higher shipping
cost to ship finished products from China.

This is an interesting test of the cost system of the
current manufacturing economy. So far as manufactures
are now (1) bar-coded and (2) delivered in bulk in standard
shipping containers, does distance cost anything any more?
We may discover that goods from (say) Malaysia are
cheaper than the same goods from Cuba (cf. the capital
cost of infrastructure for Cuba to assemble raw materials etc.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)