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factory cut leather from Brazil, apply glue and carefully pinch, gather and hammer the material into soles. The work could be partly automated, but Cambodian labor costs are low. Adam Dean for The New York Times ","type"™:"text"}],"identifier":" anf-container- 4", "layout"™:"image-

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body", "role":"body", "text":"Moving the entire supply chain out of China would be too complicated, she said. But Inventec could assemble the final product in other places so the a€ecountry of origind€ certificate would not say China, she

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