It estimates that labor in Mexico will cost less than $4 an hour.
According to his memoirs, the labour nearly cost him and his mother their lives, as Guibert turned around in the womb.
They enjoy duty-free imports, they pay no taxes and labor costs them next to nothing.
If local labor costs the industrialist more, he has to pay it, because what choice does he have?
In 1843 he left Paris to seek in Italy the health his labors had cost him.
Even if you paid your workers minimum wage, just the labor of the project would cost billions of dollars.
The outflow of clerical jobs to communities where land, labor and utilities cost less is nothing new.
They once calculated that if they had hired craftsmen to do the entire restoration, the labor alone would have cost them $850,000.
As a result, labor and materials now cost from $120 to $200 a square foot, up 40 percent since the late 1980's, builders say.
The air-conditioning project, whose equipment, materials and labor will cost about $200 million, is already being described as the world's most expensive air-cooling system.