If people WANT steering racks then argue for them, but making up reasons that have no rationale, is not adding credibility to either side of any argument.
The same can be said of comparing car costs (or steering rack costs) in South America. The best FV car there is sold new for R100,000. Well, one 1.0 Rand is worth worth .091 US dollar (Insert your own Mike Rand joke here). Obviously, the South African currency is very week according to the US dollar and buying goods from there is not representative of value when comparing their "off shore" cost to US manufactured goods. Their $10K cars would cost $30+K if built here. One needs to consider what the cost of steering boxes or other FV parts would cost if imported from there. Perhaps, as an alternative to buying Chinese, some of the FV part supply solutions could from countries with very weak currencies.