Australia's Canberra-class example combines overseas construction with work completed at home. Such arrangements depend on whether foreign orders are politically acceptable and whether the country can afford the hard-currency payments. Domestic construction instead directs wages through the national economy, where spending and taxation return some of the money to the state. Further spending by workers can spread those effects into other sectors. The illustrative scale comparison is hundreds of people in design teams against tens of thousands in construction and its industrial workforce, depending on the country and order. These economic consequences form part of the procurement decision alongside delivery capacity.
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Domestic shipbuilding, overseas orders, and economic returns
Foreign construction affects external payments, while domestic employment and taxation return part of shipbuilding expenditure through the economy.