We do provide high-quality mugs and T-shirts to print on but an operative is welcome to buy from cheaper competition if they can find it.
In 1968 the magnesite plant closed down due to cheaper competition from Japan and changes in the steel industry.
In addition, nearly all the town's farms have gone bankrupt in the face of cheaper competition from eastern countries.
Italy's fashion industry is in the midst of a transformation as it adjusts to slower growth and cheaper foreign competition.
This concern about cheap, low-quality competition is also felt by book-app publishers.
However, by the 1970s the clothing industry was in irreversible decline, facing cheap foreign competition.
In Japan, the inefficient but politically powerful farm sector whips up nationalist sentiment to win protection from cheaper foreign competition.
Banks once had a thriving shrimping industry but this has dwindled to almost nothing due to cheaper foreign competition.
Let us not be intimidated by cheap competition from third countries: we cannot possibly produce as cheaply as they do in any case.
But the killer micro revolution meant there would be a steady march of ever faster and cheaper competition.