1. The shipping cost from Asia to Europe is: a flat-screen TV, $2; a pair of shoes, 11 cents; T-shirt, 4 cents; a tablet, 5 cents. 2. If you catch fish in Scotland, ship them to China for processing using containers, and then send the fish back, the cost is still lower than processing locally in Scotland. 3. The transportation cost from China's coast to inland areas is three times the ocean freight from China to the US. 4. It is cheaper for southern China to import soybeans from the US than to buy soybeans from the Northeast, because the freight from the US to China for one ton of soybeans is only about $20.
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1. The shipping cost from Asia to Europe is: a flat-screen TV, $2; a pair of shoes, 11 cents; T-shirt, 4 cents; a tablet, 5 cents.
2. If you catch fish in Scotland, ship them to China for processing using containers, and then send the fish back, the cost is still lower than processing locally in Scotland.
3. The transportation cost from China's coast to inland areas is three times the ocean freight from China to the US.
4. It is cheaper for southern China to import soybeans from the US than to buy soybeans from the Northeast, because the freight from the US to China for one ton of soybeans is only about $20.