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Unit 4 Macro: TV Assembly Back in the USA

Geoff Riley

5th May 2012

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Here is a small, tentative counter-weight to the inevitable shift of global manufacturing / assembly to the East. A short video about a US firm that has started to manufacture televisions in the USA. Tariffs and transportation costs have played a role in making it viable and their marketing department has been quick to exploit nationalistic feelings among some consumers.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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