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…Traditionally, these manufacturing companies have only expanded overseas to developing countries, but in recent years, in the fields of color televisions, audio equipment, motorcycles, and automobiles, as trade friction with Western developed countries has intensified, an increasing number of companies are shifting from product exports to local production, and expansion into developed countries is also becoming more prominent. In the case of overseas expansion intended to avoid trade friction, the traditional knockdown method of exporting parts to the local country and assembling them locally has little effect on absorbing employment, so the establishment of large-scale factories with full-scale production lines is being requested by countries with serious unemployment problems. Compared to product exports and technology exports, local production has the following advantages: (1) if successful, it can bring about large long-term profits; (2) it is not affected by policies such as import bans, import restrictions, and strengthening tariff barriers in the host country; (3) after-sales service can be provided sufficiently and quickly; (4) the period of physical distribution to transport products to the market is short; (5) there is little risk of technology being stolen; (6) it is easy to thoroughly control quality; and (7) a lot of information about the local area can be obtained through the production base. …

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…従来これら製造業の海外進出先は発展途上国に限られていたが，近年ではカラーテレビ，オーディオ機器，二輪車，自動車などの分野で，欧米先進国との貿易摩擦が深刻化するなかで，製品輸出から現地生産への転換をはかる企業が増えており，先進国への進出も目立っている。貿易摩擦の回避を意図した現地進出の場合，従来のように部品を現地に輸出し，現地ではそれを組み立てて完成品にするだけといった〈ノックダウンknockdown〉方式では，雇用吸収効果が小さいため，より本格的な生産ラインをもった大規模工場の設立が，失業問題の深刻な進出先から要請されている。　製品輸出や技術輸出と比べると，現地生産には，(1)成功すれば長期にわたり大きな利益が得られる，(2)相手国の輸入禁止，輸入制限，さらに関税障壁強化といった政策の影響を受けない，(3)アフター･サービスを十分かつ迅速に実施できる，(4)製品を市場まで運ぶ物的流通の期間が短い，(5)技術を盗まれる危険が少ない，(6)品質管理が徹底しやすい，(7)生産拠点を通じて現地に関する多くの情報が得られる，といったメリットがある。…

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