The article touches on the merchant advantage is reduced import costs, and pre-existing logistics network.
I wished alot of Indian ecommerce sites would ship out to North America easily... But not many of the big ones.
China subsidizes delivery of packages... And why they can hawk an item for under a dollar including shipping. (Heck in Canada, it's minimum $1.20 to send a letter to the states)
Since you sent it anyway, the book was valuable enough to ship despite the price of shipping it.
US first class mail customers are actually the ones subsidizing your free shipping for a counterfeit “Star Winners” Lego minifig.
Serious question: Why do you call it "abuse"? Are the Chinese taking advantage of a loophole Americans left in a treaty?
Participation in the Universal Post Union is a political matter. Countries cannot simply back out if they think certain terms are unfair.
>The USPS exec thought he was being clever by getting free shipping to China, but he didn't realize that there is practically no mail shipping US to China, and lots of mail shipping China to US.
For the same article it still costs China less to send to the US than the other way around because the former counts as a developing country, though the unbalanced volume does compound the problem. After all the scheme was not drafted with many small parcels of personal imports in mind and it will take decades to fix.
I think you and Amazon have different priorities when choosing tapestry manufacturers
I agree with your premise - India and China both have a deep and rich tradition of arts and crafts - but why are you surprised that we don’t have more goods from India? Unless I am mistaken, the rise of “Made in China” goods did not come with a proportional rise of people demanding Chinese pottery/jewelry/paintings/sculptures/etc in the West.
If you're in the bay area go to Filoli and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. They have hallways full of massive intricately carved blinds. They have huge beautiful rugs, but they are not featured in any way shape or form as much as the other art is.
Which is irrelevant to explain "the rise of “Made in China” goods" as this "Asian art", whether "produced in/from/inspired by China" or not, is 1/1,000,000th of the Made in China goods people buy (which today includes everything, from cars and iPhones to consumer electronics and Armanis).
China doesn't dominate global manufacturing / production because people liked Chinese art, but because they built the infrastructure, support systems, expertise, and hands to produce whatever much more common products.
2. International shipping fees are exorbitant