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I'm sure manufacturing costs is like 10% or even less, but between the factories in e.g. China and the US or Europe, there's container transport overseas, import taxes and fees, and other such transportation and logistics overhead.

I freqently find myself in a supermarket and think that the packaging for the products there was more expensive than the product itself. Plus the logistics.



Shipping over the ocean from China to the US is very cheap.




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