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Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era

SHANGHAI (AP) -- Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world's factory floor.
A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude wakeup call for the many foreign companies that depend on China's low costs to compete overseas, from makers of Christmas trees to manufacturers of gadgets like the iPad.
Many companies are striving to stay profitable by shifting factories to cheaper areas farther inland or to other developing countries, and a few are even resuming production in the West.

The downside for UPS is that "if" this trend grows and even esculates, the infastructure UPS has built in the far east to move in and out goods may not itself give the returns that has before this point almost seemed a guarantee. This trend does bare watching for several reasons.