embassy delay

Re: [spiers] embassy delay


In a message dated 5/1/03 8:49:14 AM, psnyder@alumni.caltech.edu writes:

<< In each case, I addressed it to the commercial attache.

Just wondering if I should wait it out, or what?>>

You can wait, but there is another strategy. Contact the Hong Kong Trade
Development Office... you can find them online. Things are changing, but
traditionally Hong kong has served as an entrepot for China and I have found
you can almost always get better prices, service and delivery getting
products via Hong Kong agents than directly from Chinese suppliers, even
after the agents add their commissions.

The reason is quite simple, the Cantonese are the best traders in the world,
bar none, so they get the best prices.. and the Chinese on the mainland
naturally inflate prices when they see you are from USA (since you can pay
more). We do this commonly from USA as well, where USA companies charge
customers from wealthy countries more than customers from poor countries.

Indeed, there are networks out there that buy up valuable and subsidized USA
product into poor countries and then resell it into rich countries.

John

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