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Well apart from the strange drift from the title ... I'll say that if USA imports from China in volume and we import from either China or the USA at far lower volume, our costs could be absolutely higher, even though you'd think distribution cost by sea would be half. But that's not so because the USA has such large volumes of imports I'm sure their cost per good is far lower than ours.
Secondly you shouldn't compare retail buy or sell prices, as its dealer buy prices that you're really pondering. And once again dealer buying power for the half dozen retailer here who combined sell hundreds of scopes a year is not going to compare favourably to dealers in the USA that aggregrate buying power and buy hundreds of thousands or millions of similar scopes per year.
But personally - back on topic, seeing the astrophotgraphs APOs of this size produce, I can clearly understand where a 4" or 5" quality APO sits as an imaging platform. For several objects its ideal. I guess each scope has objects its design is better suited for within its aperature and price class.
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