Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Globalization Wiping Out the American Surfboard Industry?
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Economic correspondent Paul Solman reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers fear they will soon be wiped out by competing, foreign companies due to discrepancies in labor costs and duty taxes.
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