Originally Posted by Chombi

Either the government or the involved labor Unions might be requiring that a percentage of production is still maintained in the country if any outsourcing is to be done by the comapany. It happens all the time. The company just looks at it as a neccessary loss that can be offset anyway by the drastically cheaper labor and materials cost they deal with in countries like Thailand.
Please note that it makes a lot of sense too that most tires be produced in countries like Thailand because......most of the rubber in the world comes from there.......
Technology, engineering and equipment can be sent anywhere these days in miminal time anyway.

Chombi
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