(21-10-2021, 10:27 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: It would have been nice though if our leadership - and not just political - had seized the covid lockdown period as an opportunity to switch focus towards self sufficiency and away from overshore production. I know some companies are doing it and others have plans, but when we cannot even produce our own cat food in sufficient quantities to keep our moggies alive, there is something really unbalanced about our economy. Our dependence on international suppliers is, as the OP points out, a serious weakness, and leaves us vulnerable in all kinds of ways.Its not just an NZ issue either, its global, i believe covid has woken up alot of companies to the fact they are so dependent on China and need to diversify their locations of manufacture.
Better if you can get it made locally.
Its a joke complaining about global warming/carbon footprints when at the same time happy to send materials to china only to get them processed there and sent back!
they are doing it with timber here I believe and now sawmills are shutting down!