Hello,
Our company imports vast amounts of Chinese designed/manufactured lighting products and “middle-man’s” them on to western markets. We have a ‘token’ design/manufacture base in UK which kind of “oils the wheels”, shall we say, for this operation. (I'm not knocking the token products....they are pretty cute, and in truth, on a cost/performance/functionality basis, they are very very good and very often just what the customers want.)
Though this behaviour by virtually all UK (+ other countrys too) companys undoubtedly means that ultimately the UK will totally stagnate and passage into being a third world country, ( **broken link removed** ) you can clearly see why UK companys find this modus operandi very difficult to avoid… because there are now very few engineers left in UK, and schools are simply not adequately trying to address the engineering staff short-fall. –The following necessary measures are not being carried out…( **broken link removed** ) There is also the situation of trying to make UK designed products cost competitive with stuff that is simply bought in from the Far East....at a price set by the Far East, which is so cheap that it is low enough to encourage total "knock-out" of western product design capability.....ultimately rendering the west a dependent customer.
There is also the situation of Far East Asian girls being tragically bred into prostitution, so as to satisfy the revolting sexual desires of Western business visitors, who visit the Far East on the premise that they need to “check out” the factory. How they can believe that whatever Far East Asian factory they get shown round is really the one where their products will really be designed/made is beyond me…….in truth, it is virtually certainly just a stooge setup, to fool western visitors. The real factory is probably some horrendous sweat-shop that Western eyes never see.
Anyway, our engineer was just in the middle of finishing up some important testing in some of our “token” UK products, when they took him off this job, because for whatever reason, they were concerned that he may up and leave after completing this work. The company now appear to be pretending that the engineer must design a switch mode power supply based LED driver. This seems to me to be almost certainly a fake job, invented to try and fool the engineer into believing that there is some juicy work to be getting on with, and no doubt an attempt to scupper his leave plans, having prevented him from finishing the work he was doing on the ‘token’ products.
I really cannot believe that a company that makes the vast bulk of its money from “middle-manning” Far East Asian lighting products into the UK suddenly wants to start designing stuff. Only a month ago they told the engineer that there was no development work to be done. Every time a Switch Mode design was presented, it was simply rejected on the basis of being too expensive.
The crucial point is, how much money can be made in importing Far East Asian lighting products into UK? What is the EU Tariff on such imports? I am aware that UK companys don’t pay the tariff because the EU customs guys don’t come to mainland UK. Does anyone know what kind of profit gets skimmed off of an order for say 1000 T8 LED tubes from the Far East , say?
Its necesary to find out the details before our repective western countries totally stagnate, and in the case of the UK, feverishly filling its boots with Far East Asian stuff, and becoming a Third world country within a decade.
Our company imports vast amounts of Chinese designed/manufactured lighting products and “middle-man’s” them on to western markets. We have a ‘token’ design/manufacture base in UK which kind of “oils the wheels”, shall we say, for this operation. (I'm not knocking the token products....they are pretty cute, and in truth, on a cost/performance/functionality basis, they are very very good and very often just what the customers want.)
Though this behaviour by virtually all UK (+ other countrys too) companys undoubtedly means that ultimately the UK will totally stagnate and passage into being a third world country, ( **broken link removed** ) you can clearly see why UK companys find this modus operandi very difficult to avoid… because there are now very few engineers left in UK, and schools are simply not adequately trying to address the engineering staff short-fall. –The following necessary measures are not being carried out…( **broken link removed** ) There is also the situation of trying to make UK designed products cost competitive with stuff that is simply bought in from the Far East....at a price set by the Far East, which is so cheap that it is low enough to encourage total "knock-out" of western product design capability.....ultimately rendering the west a dependent customer.
There is also the situation of Far East Asian girls being tragically bred into prostitution, so as to satisfy the revolting sexual desires of Western business visitors, who visit the Far East on the premise that they need to “check out” the factory. How they can believe that whatever Far East Asian factory they get shown round is really the one where their products will really be designed/made is beyond me…….in truth, it is virtually certainly just a stooge setup, to fool western visitors. The real factory is probably some horrendous sweat-shop that Western eyes never see.
Anyway, our engineer was just in the middle of finishing up some important testing in some of our “token” UK products, when they took him off this job, because for whatever reason, they were concerned that he may up and leave after completing this work. The company now appear to be pretending that the engineer must design a switch mode power supply based LED driver. This seems to me to be almost certainly a fake job, invented to try and fool the engineer into believing that there is some juicy work to be getting on with, and no doubt an attempt to scupper his leave plans, having prevented him from finishing the work he was doing on the ‘token’ products.
I really cannot believe that a company that makes the vast bulk of its money from “middle-manning” Far East Asian lighting products into the UK suddenly wants to start designing stuff. Only a month ago they told the engineer that there was no development work to be done. Every time a Switch Mode design was presented, it was simply rejected on the basis of being too expensive.
The crucial point is, how much money can be made in importing Far East Asian lighting products into UK? What is the EU Tariff on such imports? I am aware that UK companys don’t pay the tariff because the EU customs guys don’t come to mainland UK. Does anyone know what kind of profit gets skimmed off of an order for say 1000 T8 LED tubes from the Far East , say?
Its necesary to find out the details before our repective western countries totally stagnate, and in the case of the UK, feverishly filling its boots with Far East Asian stuff, and becoming a Third world country within a decade.
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