China's Increasing High-End Exports to US

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Alex Frangos, China Flips Switch to Fancy Exports. Wall Street Journal, Mar 25, 2013.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 45551411900878.html

Quote:

(a) "A chunk of what is marked 'Made in China' is made up of parts and design that originated elsewhere, making trade data a little fuzzy. The chips in Inventronics' LED drivers are from the US, for example.

(b) "Talaris considered locating its factory in Taiwan, South Korea or Southeast Asia, but China had the advantage of a web of parts suppliers that would compete with each other and keep prices low, he says.

"Around 90% of the value of a Talaris cash sorter is produced within China. The sorter's high-tech sensors, which account for 10% of the cost, are made in Japan. But diodes, capacitors, steel and plastic pieces are produced in southern China's technology metropolis of Shenzhen for quick shipping 930 miles to Talaris's assembly and research-and-development facility in Shanghai.

My comment:
(a) Gary HUA  华桂潮博士，1994年获得美国弗吉尼亚理工大学电气工程博士学位
/ Inventronics  英飞特电子（杭州）股份有限公司
http://cn.inventronics-co.com/
(b) Please note that the bar charts are "change from a year earlier"--rather than export values of that year.
(c) At first glance, the right panel of bar charts may be unsettling for Chinese, that China's exports to US of footwear and apparel have grown little in the last two years. But it is beguiling--
(i) because China's market share of footwear and apparel in US are at a level difficult to expand further (China has basically cornered the world markets).
(d) US-China Trade Statistics and China's World Trade Statistics. The US-China Business Council,
https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html
(Table 3: Top US Imports from China, 2011 ($ billion): No 1 Electrical machinery and equipment        $98.7 billion)