A good friend on mine goes to China for 1 week out of 4-5, he works in electronics and buys component parts, we were talking about cost and pricing and the trend that he is seeing is that with the cost of shipping (fuel) etc, and the unrest that the workers have about low wages and the information that they can obtain via the internet he believes that the market disparity will contract dramatically within the next 5 years, he is in the process of looking for a UK supplier/manufacturer of UK made component parts, the strategy being that they can market their product as "made in England".
You only have to see what has been happening at the plant that Apple use to make the Iphone/Ipad etc, to see that things are changing.
