Re: (erielack) Where models are made (economics and international trade)

[dcw <dcw_rr_@_verizon.net>]

It's not /all/ about labor cost.
IIRC, Atlas would have liked to do more in-house, but that would have 
meant expanding, and a whole different tax structure and set of 
regulations would have kicked in.
MicroTrains split off from Kadee for the same reason, to keep each 
company under a certain number of employees (I think 100 was the magic 
number)

Then again, Atlas and others have farmed out manufacturing for ages- 
think Rivarossi, Rowa, Pola, Heljan, all sold under different names from 
time to time.

But what do I know, I'm just an N scaler, and the manufacture of that 
oversized stuff may be completely different
- -ArtP


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