"Tom Francis" wrote in message
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On 15 Oct 2006 18:41:47 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
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Tom Francis wrote:
Might want to watch this. It's kind of long, but worth the effort.

http://maccise.com/2006/07/welcome-to-north-korea.html

Speaking of North Korea, I'd be surprised if there are any recreational
boats in that country at all. Ol' Kim probably goes boating in
something armor plated, with 50-calibers mounted on the decks, and a
Kevlar clad crew.

Chinese boats, even mainland Chinese boats, are pretty well accepted in
the marketplace these days- and many of them are decently or better
built. I suspect that anybody trying to bring in boats from North Korea
wouldn't find a receptive market right now, and it wouldn't matter how
much boat you could buy for how little.

Really, Chinese boats?

Got some links?

Speaking of Chinese...

I had a RFQ out to some importers on a couple of salt water fly
fishing lures that have received some local attention as being pretty
good patterns and just this morning received a fax from one of them
with the quote.

Shocked is the word. I don't even know how to describe the difference
between an American company I asked and this Chinese one - factor of
thousands is the best word with the Chinese being considerable lower
including the packaging and shipping.

Unreal.

No legal liability
No R&D, copy existing designs
No warranty
No Competition (state protected)
No need for a stable of lawyers to provide protection and support against
other lawyers

That's about 30% of the savings then add low labor costs