Jim R. posted:ajzend posted:I may be wrong, but I believe that if you have tooling in China you cannot bring it out. It's there to stay. So, American manufacturers are held hostage by their choice to move there in the first place.
Alan
If the tooling was created in China, definitely. If it was shipped into China, it might possibly be retrieved. But there are very few examples of that in China, which has pretty much owned O gauge production for nearly two decades now, after Lionel announced its move in 2000.
True. American Models (S Scale manufacturer) recovered their US made tooling after the Sanda Kan fiasco. It did take some time to retrieve it, though.
Rusty