[TheForge] Re: Taiwanese Machine Tools - and some Yak

[Al McClure]

Andrew,
I completely agree. US industry and business think that shipping work
over to "low cost" developing nations will make them more money.


 I cant understand how the Politicians can give such incentives to foreign
countries to come here to displace American companies and drive up the taxes
of the established business.

I know that in 1985, GM wanted to buy 300 robots from Cinn / Milicron by a
certain date. Milicron didn't have the robots in storage, but would build
them ( if Milicron had them in storage, they would have to pay taxes on
them). GM bought 85 robots from them and 215 from Fanuc because Fanuc had
them in a warehouse here in the States, but unlike Milicron, they didn't
have to pay taxes on them because they were stored in a duty free area. Is
this true competition??? or is it another example of political pay offs??