SOCI 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Consumer Electronics, Lubbock, Texas, Product Differentiation
5 Feb 2015
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The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy. The author questioned the origin of a shirt he found in a store in fort lauderdale. The owner of the store tells him it is from china and therefore in order to know more about it which lead to the author contacting patrick xu, the factory owner in shanghai, who is currently living in. His factory in shanghai china imports cotton from texas. Our author is therefore curious to know more about the travel of his tshirt" and embarks in a pursuit to discover it. Gary sandler buys t-shirts from mexico, el salvador, the dominican republic, costa rica, Bangladesh, honduras, china, pakistan, botswana, india, hong kong and south korea. Competition is constantly growing and the market is increasingly competitive. Shirt cost: . 24 including 25cents tariff, 25million shirt go from china to the us based on the. How america has dominated the global cotton industry for 200 years.
