Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:37 PM 01/08/97 -0400, you wrote: > >By interntational convention, a product is considered to be made in the > country where more than 50% of it's value is added. It matters not that all > the parts of a widgit are made in Sri Lanka, if it is assembled in the USA, > and the value of the highly paid american workers is more than that of the > more poorly paid Sri Lankan workers (who probably put a lot more hours into > it), it is classed as "Made in USA". Same with Canada, Britain, Italy etc. > < >============================================================= >David -- >Then if this is true, the early "R" cameras that were marked "made in >Portugal" >with both the name Leica & Leitz on them, were actually made by Portugese >workers and in Portugal? >Joy Lindstrom Joy: Presumably, more of the actual assembly work was done there, at that time. BTW: Mark small advised me of one minor error (for which I thank him), namely >Per the ECONOMIST, Japan is about 20% higher than German rates. American >rates are about 2/3 of German. >Marc