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Thread ID: 109378	2010-05-05 23:49:00	What is made in NZ?	bk T (215)	PC World Chat

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882572	2010-05-06 07:42:00	KiwiBank?	beeswax34 (63)
882573	2010-05-06 09:24:00	You did hear the news today. Unemployment has actually dropped from 7.1%, to 6%. yea thats what I said Employment increased, your getting confused between "unemployment" and "increased Employment". I used the term increased employment to counter a statement unemployment was falling due to people leaving the country which is typical self doubting kiwi negative garbage. Even good news is met by people trying to find something negative in it. BTW relevant to this thread employment in the manufacturing sector was the biggest gain of around 9000 which is very positive, at least we dont have an additional 9000 real estate agents :P	Battleneter2 (9361)
882574	2010-05-06 09:34:00	Oh, dear! We can't even make a simple custain in NZ! What can we (NZ) make or do - other than drinking BEER?You need to consider the smaller manufacturers if you wish to go local. I ordered a roller blind online from a Christchurch company and they were half the price Kresta quoted. I also got the custom sized blind delivered within two days. Good quality construction using the same materials that Kresta did. You had to install them yourself, but clear instructions were provided. Supporting local businesses helps them compete against the overseas companies.	Jen (38)
882575	2010-05-06 19:34:00	NZ is VERY similar to most OECD countries and manufactures very little as its so much cheaper to do it in China. x2 Just about every country in the world has problems competing with Chinese manufacturing. Not much is made in the States now aside from airplanes and military gear. What amazes me, is that Cadburys sent their production to Australia which has much higher wages than us, surely we could have made their chocolate ! We do "make" a lot of hightech computer software and movies. We also need to be able to sell stuff to pay for these cheap imports. As long as we can keep selling our milk and wine and cheese, and kiwifruit etc. But what happens when China and Chile etc start making inroads into that ! ? They have cheap land, cheap labour and similar climates. I also agree that we should not have cut our tarifs so quickly, that left us with nothing to negotiate with. (but then again our market is so small ! I just spoke today to a guy from Mexico, he comes from a city with 5 million people, and no its not the capital its Montery. That's more than the whole of New Zealand. As I have said many times, we need far more people here, about 20 million imho.	Digby (677)
882576	2010-05-06 23:05:00	[QUOTE=robbyp;905546Much of what is now imported into NZ, is cheap chinese rubbish, which ends up in our landfills after a few short years.[/QUOTE] This only reflects what the public WANT TO BUY. Just the way it is. You want (say) a printer that can be repaired and lasts 10years with parts backup (rather than a throw away item), pay $1000 = a bit unrealistic. Its time to pull our heads out & realize that China can & does produce goods of the highest quality at 1/3 the cost. There are plenty of cheap HIGH QUALITY goods coming out of china, at a price not much more than the rubbish. its also a just matter of time before other countries will be more than a match for our agricultural exports. Thats when the s*** will really hit the fan. But on the other hand, I think we should have kept our car assembly plants open via new car tarrifs. There were used imports available at the same time & that seemed to be working out fairly well for everyone, there was a good choice between cheap used imports or new locally assembled at slightly inflated(protected) prices.	sroby (11519)
882577	2010-05-06 23:15:00	This only reflects what the public WANT TO BUY. Just the way it is. You want (say) a printer that can be repaired and lasts 10years with parts backup (rather than a throw away item), pay $1000 = a bit unrealistic. Its time to pull our heads out & realize that China can & does produce goods of the highest quality at 1/3 the cost. There are plenty of cheap HIGH QUALITY goods coming out of china, at a price not much more than the rubbish. its also a just matter of time before other countries will be more than a match for our agricultural exports. Thats when the s*** will really hit the fan. I am not sure other countries have the space, climate and water for food production that would knock us out. Chile is a bit of a worry because in parts it has the same climate as ours so they can grow radiata and kiwifruit. Forget China they can barely feed themselves and they have a problem with desertification and salt.	prefect (6291)
882578	2010-05-07 03:10:00	While I tend to agree China makes alot of knock offs but there are legitimate companies in china. As far as I know mobiles which you used are mostly made in China. The tax and gst in New Zealand makes it hard to earn any profit	Ninjabear (2948)
882579	2010-05-07 03:21:00	I think Dairy products and wool are manufactured in NZ . Thats all I can think of. There are plenty of good products made in China. For example your cellphones,Tv, dvd player etc are made there so "made in china" doesn't mean everything made from there is bad. NZ don't have the people to get into the manufacture business. The tax is expensive. It costs alot to pay the workers themselves. Not to mention broadband is still pretty expensive here. There's a lack of people in NZ that can manufacture products. NZ is also a slow pace country. The lifestyle is different. I'm not so sure if they can compete overseas.	Ninjabear (2948)
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