Sheetrock/drywall WARNING!!!

"Ken- I can understand the Chinese products being cheaper but why is Canadian sheetrock less?"

Lower overall labor rates (e.g., employer not having to provide health insurance or matching employee contributions to various deductions)? Unions? Government subsidies? I don't know. I just had the yard owner tell me they buy in Canadian sheetrock.

Maybe ten years ago I bought a 50-lb box of barbwire fence staples from the same yard. On box is marked "Made in Lithania". Now, fence staples isn't a labor intensive product. Yet, they could be produced, shipped to the U.S. and undersell a U.S. supplier. Here my understanding is a heavy governmental subsidy of the steel-related industries to keep them in business.

A person never knows where a product comes from or where it has been before you got a hold of it.
Take for example, there is a part inside your computers hard drive, That the stainless steel comes from Japan, shipped to the USA, that company then makes there product and boxes them up,, and shippeds those parts Back to Japan to be put in the Different hard drive makers, THEN those same hard drives are shipped Back here to the States,to be put in computers from all the different computers makers.
There is a Great example just How a World Market works and a Global economy is working. Many trips over the ocean before finally ending up in the end product. And that is just ONE small product I am sure there are hundreds of others making the same kind of boat rides~!

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