Years ago, there was also the fact that model kit tooling tended to be produced in factories that were Unionized. China has no labor unions, AFAIK.

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Communist governments tend not to have labor unions within their borders.
Don't know why the model companies years ago, didn't just relocate the tooling to open shop states like Texas. Yes, there are a few companies in Texas with labor unions (BNSF Railroad, the airlines, manufacturers like GM and Lockheed and Textron/Bell Helicopter), but most of the manufacturing companies I've worked for have been non-Union.

Heck, Airfix used to pop models out of a plant near Waco in the early '80s. Think it was located in the town of Hewitt.

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Well, I see Atlantis is offering Revell's old everything opens '57 Belair that is made in the USA for about the same prices, or a little less, than those made in China. How do they do that, or, why can't the rest do that? *NM*