Shopping in US vs. in China

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David Pierson, Products made in China often cost more there than in the West
; The premium prices frustrate shoppers as well as those who see getting
Chinese consumers to open their wallets as crucial to balancing the global
economy. Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0713-china-consumer-20100713,0,1615376.story
("Then there are taxes and levies. That Apple laptop is made at a factory
that's granted a rebate on China's 17% value added tax, as long as those
computers are exported and sold abroad. Chinese buyers aren't so fortunate.
Before that same machine can be sold domestically, it is first sent to Hong
Kong, a special administrative region of China, then returned to the
mainland with a 20% import tariff, industry experts said")

My comment:
(a) Buddy Holly (1936-1959) died of a plane crash.
http://eyeglasses39.com/tag/eyeglass-fashion

(b) Maclaren Techno XT
http://shop.maclarenbaby.com/Products/B2C_US/Buggies/WOX11/Techno+XT.aspx

(c) suds (n; always with an "s"): "2a : foam, froth b: beer"
(d) Häagen-Dazs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4agen-Dazs
(a brand of ice cream, established by Polish immigrants Reuben and Rose
Mattus in the Bronx, New York, in 1961; section 2 Name")
(e) The report says, "Wang Da [] sells Coach bags on the popular e-commerce
site Taobao. * * * Wang has a network of 30 runners who travel to the U.S.,
visiting California, New Jersey, Florida and other states, and bring back
purses, clutches and wallets. He said almost all of these goods were
manufactured in Chinese factories."

No wonder a few weeks ago a Chinese woman was upset when a manger of a Coach
store in America limited her and her husband (they shopped together) to ONE
coach bag a visit.

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