Peng Plasma Pricing. Peng Plasma is a privately held Chinese business. It specializes in the manufacture of plasma cutting torches. Over the past eight years it has held the Chinese renminbi price of the PT$350$ cutting torch fixed at Rmb $17,400$ per unit. Over that same period it has worked to reduce costs per unit, but has struggled of late due to higher input costs. Over that same period the renminbi has continued to be revalued against the U$.$S$.$ dollar by the Chinese government. After completing the table $-$assuming the same price in renminbi for all years$-$answer the following questions.

a$.$ What has been the impact of Peng's pricing strategy on the US$ price? How would you expect their U$.$S$.$ dollar$-$based customers to have reacted to this?

b$.$ What has been the impact on Peng's margins from this pricing strategy?

Complete the table below: $(1.$ Round all values as in year $2007.2.$ Round the percentage change in price to one decimal place.$)$

Fixed Rmb Pricing of the PT$350$ Plasma Cutting Torch

$\backslash$table$[[$Year$,\backslash$table$[[$Cost$],[($Rmb$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Margin$],[($Rmb$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Price$],[($Rmb$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Margin$],[(\%)]],\backslash$table$[[$Average Rate$],[($Rmb$/$US$$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Price$],[($US$$)]],\backslash$table$[[$Change US$$],[$Price $(\%)]]],[2007,16,000,1,400,17,400,8\mathrm{.}0,7\mathrm{.}61,2,286,],[2008,15,400,,17,400,,6\mathrm{.}95,,]]$