China's Manufacturers Are Squeezed

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Tom Orlik, US Retailers See No China Price Increase. Wall Street Journal, Nov 30, 2012 (title in print; published in the half page Heard on the Street)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 48712993492662.html
(input costs, wages, land and energy all go up for China's factories. "US import prices from China have fallen over the last year, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics." Why? Because Chinese makers are small (placing bargaining power in the hands of the US buyers), plagued by overcapacity and weak demand in the West.  US "retailers can also go elsewhere [in the world] for cheap goods")