you clearly weren't paying attention. Blow molding = very low density (most of the volume of your final product is air) If we could cut out he cost of labor, then our products would be MUCH cheaper, and much more competetive. Unfortunately moving to china or india or mexico would severely blow up our shipping costs. it takes 14 of our largest parts to fill a crate, the parts weigh a little over a pound each... you can only fit 52 crates on a truck. Now you have a truck that can handle 80,000 lbs of cargo carrying only 1000 lbs of cargo, but still charging you for a full load... Now if we were manufacturing heavy dense rectagular widgets, (such as Iphones) it would make way more sense to go overseas, just based on labor. The only regulation that really impacts our bottom line is minimum wage. Taxes and regulatory costs are all under that big heading of "overhead and energy" which is about 10% (and where my paycheck is drawn from) 70% of that 10% is electricity. We run part grinders and hydraulic press motors 24/7 they draw a great deal of juice. if you want to improve the bottom line... Biggest contributor is resin cost, if you cut resin cost by any noticeable amount, we become more competitive (but then all of our competitors would get the same advantage) Second biggest contributor, Labor.. which is part of the reason we have an initiative to increase automation. lowest contributor, overhead, and energy.