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Originally Posted by T3rminator
Saw a doco on ABC the other day on Australian wool manufacturing. We send our wool over to China for them to wash and clean, then it is sent back here, we make the stuff, then sell it and often back to China.
There were talks about bringing the washing process back to Australia. It will cost $20m per factory, money that your average wool farmer does not have. Then add the labour costs.
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We had a fairly large (French owned) wool combing plant here which closed some years.
I read somewhere that China could scour wool for 28c a kilo, but here it cost $1.75.
All the while there is a cost difference like that Companies will always look for cheaper offshore alternatives.
But hey, we can still suck all the water from the Darling and the Murrumbidgee and grow the stuff.