Why Canada's products availability is different from the US?

#11

This is a complex topic about supply chain.

Yesterday I had to order a Lenovo (I assume made-in-China) product direct from China, an estimated 2-3 weeks delivery, for an item which is not available within USA, but is available in unusually smaller European countries. Similar was with OnePlus phone and I think I ordered an iPod once which I ordered in USA and found a tracking code from China. The risk with this is a warranty issue you have to pay for the return postage and the more international you act the more you encounter language problems.

I would ask a different question - why are Canadians so expensive and so bad at engineering and manufacturing the product has to be designed and manufactured in China? So you are causing the problem locally in your schools and entrepeneurial investment mindset. All credit to the manufacturing powerhouse which is China. It is such now that none fear a trade war with China as the Canadians would cease getting a lot they want within weeks. Same criticism of UK, USA and many other once big manufacturing countries.

Take a look of how the children growing in China are so much better at the skills needed to design and manufacturer technology products.

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#12

At least Canada uses USA type plugs not the weird ones in UK.

#13

:heart_eyes: my favorite color combination…where can I get it at I want it I want it

#14

These are very nice and would lovely with the red cables. :heart_eyes:

#15

I’d love those red batteries to arrive in France too :slight_smile:
Please @AnkerOfficial :stuck_out_tongue:

#16

I don’t think Canadian is bad at engineering, you were misinformed somewhere, the differences in price due to exchange rate, and lower population.

In term of education, we knew that Canadians (British) did burn the whitehouse. I like it. It is the best history chapter in Canada.

The blackberry was made in Canada :slight_smile: and one of the best smartphone in the world. Apple was the one who decided to do everything in China to reduce cost. It was the American who destroyed themselves and Canadians.

Apart from weapons, airplanes (which canadian needs from Americans), Canadians could just buy everything from Mexico or China. Canadians don’t wage war with China, lol, only in American dreams that we will.

#17

Nope

#18

Did I said “was made” and NOT “is made” before Apple iphone? well, history…

#19

Hence why it is made overseas and why

#20

Canadians like diversity, it is okay to like something more than other.

Canadians don’t produce everything like NorthKoreans, as you properly know. So ofcourse Candians don’t have all “amazing products” produced here.

#21

We all like diversity.

But that same diversity, such as different laws for imports, different currency, is why Canada has different availability of Anker products.

To reverse the problem, why does USA not have proper bacon?

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#22

I don’t think it is the law, it is an Anker choice.

The bacon is good :)) if you were hungry

#23

Anker alone can be the one to talk facts, I can only add argument. The population of some countries is so small, relative to the effort to import into those countries, that it restricts access to products. The population of Canada is 11% of USA, its GDP is 8% of USA, so you’d predict Canada would receive a subset of the products in USA, as well as different products to local differences in what the consumers prefers, to both good and bad outcomes.

So, the very difference of the the country of Canada, has to necessarily cause difference of availability of Anker products.

Same with practically every other country. Some countries have additional problems like physically different electrical sockets.

#24

Interestingly, you brought the big picture of the economy to the argument. If you brought the GDP, I would add the debt per capita for you. Look like you guys Americans have so much debt than Canadians.

According to this http://www.usdebtclock.org/ Each American has $62.000 usd of debt and growing.
According to this: http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/canada , Each Canadian has $24.000+ (USD) of debt

I don’t like the deduction of big number to the choice of one firm, as Macro-economy rules are different than micro-economy one. I just filled in the information for you.

#25

Interesting discussion!

A consumer of an Anker is more likely to look at personal debt than government debt, do they actually have the money to spend, in this area it is worse for Canada than USA

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But I think the debt argument overall is not relevant at all to Anker product availability, as the average selling price of an Anker product is very low, I think it is a demand issue for a country relative to the effort issue for each country. I do not know the Canadian import challenges but others have in this thread. Basically it is “small population with local laws” core problem which most countries have to suffer. At least Canada has a big-country electrical socket!

#26

Nice find, at least you found something American seems to perform better than Canada, Australia, Switzerland, and Norway, and Denmark. I wouldn’t spend time to discuss on the household debt vs welfare of a country.

Canada is not small, its area is bigger than US. Smaller population, it is. The laws are actually not much different than US, given the NAFTA rules.

#27

Land does not buy Anker products, people do. Small as measured in population is the defining dimension.

#28

Various reasons. Trade and import fees is one of them

#29

Same old same old argument, China and India populations are way bigger, and Anker produced their product there (china) also. And you said, Anker price is “cheap” also.

#30

The red color version will be available in the US before December, so stay tuned!:grin:

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