[Porsche-O-Phile]

Knew that already - it's also common with furniture. Materials are all sent to China for assembly, then shipped back here for resale.

It's all about labor costs and associated regulations. Why pay some trade union guy $30 or $40 or $50 an hour (factoring in benefits, etc.) and deal with all the regulatory hurdles when you can pay about $3.50 in China and about $10 for the shipping both ways on the same product? It's simple math. The USA dug its own grave manufacturing-wise by convincing people that they deserved $100k a year, a suburban home, 2.2 kids and 3 SUVs for doing grunt labor. Sorry, but the true value of that work is much closer to what it fetches in China than here. The fact that American consumers are dullards who only care about price point (the WalMart phenomenon) - not quality, durability, manufacturing conditions, etc. doesn't help. We enable China's slave labor practices. It's disgusting.