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Are Costs of Business in China Overtaking Benefits?

Many companies are reassessing the cost of doing business in China. They now have to add a whole host of testing, litigation and recall costs.

Still, China's advantages are great: cheap labor compared with the U.S., and great logistics infrastructure compared with other developing countries.

What amount of product liability issues will make China truly too pricey, or too risky, for business?

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