On the working standards issue, a friend of mine is Chief Engineer for a small aircraft manufacturer.
Needing some fairly large sub-assemblies manufactured, he cast around and amongst other places got quotes from a firm in the Ukraine (an offshoot of Antonov I think). The quoted twice the man-hours to do the job than any British firm, but at 1/6 the hourly rate. Guess where the work went! So far as I know, he's still quite happy with the quality (and knowing him well, he won't accept second best anything).
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