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The problem is that Shaun has a very narrow window of production. He has to roll out the new product for this year's fashions in time to get it through the brokers and buyers and into stores in time for the entire selling season. And then he does it all over again with the next season's clothes. If he doesn't keep designing something new and fresh each and every season and getting it to market timely, he goes out of business.

He's not a small operation that sells a few shirts here and there to corner head shops and strip mall T-shirt stores, that can make do with a vacant garage and a couple of part time workers. He needs someone who can ship entire containers of product directly to national retailers. The kind of people who sell Shaun's product don't need a few shirts or a few hundred shirts; they need tens of thousands to fill their inventory on a national basis. That means dedicated, professional manufacturing with reliable delivery times, perfect product, and reasonable cost.

If you can't keep it in the US, you can't. Once again, if people want you to be too good to let the manufacturing work go out of the country, what's the alternative? You go out of business, the people you employ (here and abroad) lose their jobs, and people who would like to buy the product don't have what they want to buy. Sounds like a win-win to me.

Can you set up manufacturing through a broker here who has a man on the ground or controls facilities there?