The state of the economy at the street level

[qldfrog]

@Dona Ferentes So will this mean in the future for substandard product from China????

why substandard? You mean like your iphone or TV?
Cheaper if the importer wishes too, substandard if the importer decides to sell crap too, but more importantly maybe unavailable, delayed by months, unable to be customised and at the bottom of the priority
ah well, slums do not need custom triple layers glass panes..

 

[divs4ever]

@Dona Ferentes So will this mean in the future for substandard product from China????

if you pay the big bucks ( or gold bars ) i bet China can make some mighty fine stuff , but currently importers want to pay peanuts , so they get monkey crap ( but really cheap so the margins are great )

much the same for India , pay for quality and someone will try to make it for you ( remember we used to do the same thing to Japan before they wised up )

 

[Smurf1976]

Australia’s largest glass maker and only maker of architectural glass, Oceania Glass, has been placed in administration less than a year after successfully arguing China and Thailand were dumping cheap glass into the Australian market.

I'll take an educated guess that the cost of energy was almost certainly a factor here too.

Glass is pretty energy-intensive to make, it's a significant cost input.