What is the price of tea in China?
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it really depends on the type of tea you buy. There are the low quality kinds where you can get them for like $0.50 and others that cost up to US$1,000 per kilo. \n\nIn particular, there is a scholars tea that is never sold and is only given to heads of state.
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Basically it is becuz of the lower cost of production in China (e.g.lower wages), and becuz of the currency. In brief, RMB is comparatively weak to USD and this means other countries enjoy a lower importing price of the goods from China.\n\nChina still produce high quality products. thoze low quality fake goods is usually found within China but not for export. this is due to trade restriction, a country will export goods with higher quality, and consume the  goods with lower quality.\n\nbesides, the labour supply in China is not as sufficient as most of us think and recently facing a labour shortage. it is a misconception in saying the low wage rate is due to abundant supply of labour in China.
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"The price of tea in China" is an expression which is used to denote something which is unrelated to the current topic of discussion.\n\nThis expression has stemmed from economists, who describe everything economic as affecting everything else, trying to find an expression which denotes the furthest logical connection from their current economic focus. In this way, the price of tea in China was used to denote the furthest possibility. It can also be used to denote an irrelevant topic.\n\nIt has the most common form "what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"\n\nThere may be a second explanation.\n\nIn the 19th century the price for tea in England was the highest when the first ship with the newly harvested tea came in. So for the ship owners it was important to be as fast as possible back to England with the load, otherwise the cost of the passage was not to be recovered from the sale of the tea. Thus there were real races (the tea clipper races) where the sail ships managed to travel the whole distance from China to England in about 80 to 90 days.\n\nThe difference in prices from the first load to the later ones was so high that it was quite unimportant which price for the tea was originally paid in China. So the "price of tea in China" was something that really didn't matter for the ship owners. They had to have the tea in England as fast as possible.\n\nWe're still impressed when a person will not give something up "for all the tea in China." Recent times, however, have made this amount less impressive than in the past. In the twenty five years since the Chinese government reformed agriculture on the mainland, tea production has suffered in both quantity and quality.\n\nThis should come as a surprise to many observers. Tea almost naturally seems as though it would be one of the top success stories of Chinese agricultural reform and economic growth. Not only does it have a long legacy in China, but also its popularity is increasing dramatically around the world, making it a potentially valuable export resource. Yet, the tea industry is still troubled by finding the efficient levels of production and export that will make tea a consistently profitable commodity. Two experts, Dan Etherington and Keith Forster, have called this the "no man's land between the plan and the market."\n\n The Chinese government changed the way agriculture was produced in the 1970s and early 1980s. Previously, farms were state owned, and farmers worked together on farming communes. The government purchased all of the harvest from the state farms at set prices. During the Chinese Reform Era, the farming communes broke down and individual households and farmers could grow their own crops on their own land. Still, not all vestiges of the old system were lost as the government contracted to buy most of the harvest output from individual farmers and continued to operate large scale farm communes through the prison system.\n\nFor most agriculture industries, the new individual household farms have brought significant gains in production and profit. The institution of household farming and the increase in market freedom prompted farmers to adjust their production activities in accordance with profit margins.\n\nYet, the gains are missing in the tea industry. For example, with nearly half the world's total tea gardens, China produces only about twenty percent of the world's tea output. Moreover, in 1990, China's average yield of tea per hectacre was 500 kilograms. This yield is historically low. In 1914 - 1918, Chinese tea farms yielded 900 kilograms per hectacre. This yield is also low compared to other tea producing nations. India, whose tea plantations utilize modern agriculture technology and business practices, yielded an average of 2,000 kilograms per hectacre of plucked land in 1990.\n\nObservers can attribute these disappointing results to one of three problems
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try the Consumer Price Index or other price statistics at http://www.bls.gov/data/home.htm
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Tea. Hot or iced. There are many flavors.
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The plucked tea is weighed before being taken to the factory for processing or “making”, as tea manufacture is known in the trade. Some 30-35 kg (66-77 lb) of plucked leaf makes some 7.5-9 kg (17-20 lb) of black tea, which is the type of tea that has the major share of the market in terms of production, sales, and consumption.\n\nThere are five stages in the tea-making process. Withering is the first stage, in which the plucked leaf is spread on vast trays or racks, and left to wither in air temperatures of 25-30° C (77-86° F) for a period of 10-16 hours, depending on the wetness of the leaf. As the leaf moisture evaporates the leaves become flaccid. In the next stage, the withered leaf is broken by machine, releasing the natural leaf juices. The broken leaf is produced by “orthodox” and “unorthodox” mechanized methods, the orthodox method producing larger leaf particles, or grades, and the unorthodox method producing smaller grades. These smaller grades are more suited to modern market demands for a quick-brewing finished product.\n\nDuring the fermentation stage, the broken leaf is spread on trays or put in troughs. On contact with the air, the released enzymes (from the leaf juices) oxidize. The leaf is turned from time to time until each tray or trough is full of a rusty-brown coloured leaf. Drying, often called firing, is the next stage. The fermented leaf is fed slowly through a warm air chamber, which extracts the moisture, emerging as a dark brown dried leaf, known as black tea.\n\nDuring the final stage, known as sorting, the black tea is fed into a machine fitted with a series of sieves and outlets. This sorts the grades into chests before its onward journey to auctions, traders, or blenders. The chests are foil-lined to prevent the absorption of unpleasant odours or the loss of aroma during shipment. In China, tea is sometimes allowed to absorb the scent from various flowers; jasmine is a particular favourite.\n\nThere are two main grades—pekoe and broken pekoe (the word “pekoe” is a corruption of the Chinese word for the white down found on the back of young leaves). Each grade is subdivided into further categories as the leaf particles decline in size. Fannings and dust grades are the two smallest particles. Other terms are used to describe the colour and content of the black tea leaf. For example, Broken Orange Pekoe and Tippy Broken Orange Pekoe are the names given to teas with a lot of bud in the blend, as the buds tend to turn an orange colour during the make.\n\nBefore the tea is shipped, factory tea-tasters sample the finished make to ensure no mistakes have been made during manufacture. These tasters also send samples of the make to their brokers, agents, and buyers. At the end of each make the factory is washed thoroughly to ensure that the completed make does not contaminate the next.
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from $7 to $50 depending on the part of the country you are in
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Why would they buy overpriced underquality items?\nIsn't that why you import everything from China in the first place?
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go to www.alibaba.com, they will be able to help you there.
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Is that 500 Yuan? That's about £55 so less than $100 a month. Sounds like a great job - if you're Chinese and hungry!
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Most teas come from China.
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it equals more or less 8 dollars. But more importantly is the cost of living there is much cheaper than in the US, so the 8 dollars or RMB will buy you a meal, a couple of bus tickets, even a ladies shirt, if you are a good negotiator
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Here is a good site.. just plug in  the date and you can find out the price of milk even\n\nhttp://www.dmarie.com/timecap/step1.asp
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no, the currency is CNY (Chinese Yuan). \n1 USD = 7.99 CNY
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Here are a couple good sites to help you!  If this is for homework you want to be accurate!  Not a miss interpretation from someone!\n\n\n\nhttp://www.lclark.edu/~econ/China.htm\n\nhttp://www.unpac.ca/unpac/text/anreps/2001.htm
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If it's not on the 10K, then maybe you'll have to look at something like Gartner Dataquest to find estimates for microprocessor sales in China and then assume a marketshare number and an average selling price.  That should give you a decent idea.  You could also build an estimate by looking for numbers about PC sales in China.  I would think most would be run by Intel processors.
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None. I can't get myself to like the taste of it. Tea is a lot better any day.