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Jim Kolbe: “So they were paying a tenth as much in Mexico. They moved the production back to Connecticut. The answer is because of…”

On the recordNovember 7, 1997
So they were paying a tenth as much in Mexico. They moved the production back to Connecticut. The answer is because of the productivity that they have.
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Jim Kolbe
Arizona

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Discussing the reasons for relocating production from Mexico to Connecticut.

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