Outsourcing Tariffs

Essay

Outsourcing Tariffs. The Seattle Software Company develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products. Its software products include operating systems for servers, personal computers (PC), and intelligent devices; and server applications for distributed computing environments. To cut costs, the company has begun to outsource to various Asian markets a significant amount of code checking and software verification. The global code checking and software verification service market is fiercely price competitive with prices stable at $25 per hour for services provided by trained and experienced software engineers. Relevant total cost (TC) and marginal cost (MC) relations for a typical foreign supplier of code checking and software verification services (Q) are: