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ELI5: Why its usually much cheaper to manufacture outside of america.
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If you have a lot of people in a nation and no labour laws it's easier to make profit there because, as a manufacturing plant owner, you can hold wages down closer to starvation levels.

Also, manufacturing processes can be dangerous and produce lots of toxic waste.  Outside of the u.s. there are many nations that don't have an EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), so it's easier to just dump toxic byproducts , say, into a river, ....or not spend much money at all on worker safety.   Makes bigger profit for company or corporation which owns the manufacturing plant.