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Old 09-09-2012, 12:13 PM   #20 (permalink)
niky
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If you exclude taxes inherent in crossing borders, cheaper items generally mean more efficient production and use of resources. This is the philosophy I subscribe to, also. The bugbear is when these things are merely cheaper due to lax environmental safeguards in the country of origin or sweatshop labor pricing... so caveat emptor, cave canem and carpe dinero, or whatever.
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