I do a of lot of sourcing for plastic injection mold tooling. $40k is a pretty high price for this one, but if you are getting out made in the US, then it's not completely unreasonable. Sourcing it from China would be considerably less than half that price.
Assuming they're buying extremely large quantities (likely over 10k), I'd guess that this part (top and bottom shells) cost about $3 to $5 for both, not including shipping costs.