Trade agreements like NAFTA were explicitly designed to remove any barrier that made it difficult to export manufacturing goods to the United States, thereby placing US manufacturing workers directly in competition with their much lower paid counterparts in the developing world.
Maybe as a society, the United States saves money by exporting manufacturing jobs and importing so many manufactured goods — but I still have trouble believing that it's good for us in the long run.
He cannot achieve his ambition to raise Mexico's annual growth rate to 6% by relying solely on export manufacturing.
That shows up, too, in the relatively few links between the export manufacturing plants and the rest of the economy.
The process usually starts with low-end manufacturing (apparel, footwear, plastics) and entails large numbers of workers moving from low productivity smallholder agriculture to high productivity export manufacturing.
A fire at a shoe factory in Putian, a small export manufacturing city in Fujian Province, killed 37 people and injured more than a dozen.
They have brought together ethnic minorities untouched by economic development in their mountainous isolation, and factory owners in the prime export manufacturing zones of southern Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong.
The bottom line in all this is that the Philippines is doing relatively well because of its lack of dependence on export manufacturing.
China, however, appears to be positioning itself for aggressive fiscal stimulus, hoping it can migrate its economy away from overdependence on low-end export manufacturing to something more sophisticated without setting off a wave of layoffs.
Two years later, Deng pointed at a sleepy fishing village in coastal southern China, near Hong Kong, and ordained it the country's first "special economic zone" to experiment with foreign investment and export manufacturing.
