It's been a bad year for China imports in the U.S., and was wondering if it's just with us, or are other countries having similar problems? This has really got my curiousity going. Have they been shipping the same stuff, and we just now started complaining? Did our standards change, but China already had warehouse stuff with cheap crap ready to ship.
I've lost count of the number of china recalls this year (not enough fingers, guess china only needs the one).
Also kind of wondering if the problems are that serious, or being exaterated by the media or domestic manufacturers. Ten years ago there was a big push to buy poor quality products, just because it had the 'Made in USA' label on it. It failed mostly because consumers didn't have money to throw away on junk. People shop for best value for the buck, 'made in USA' was a low priority. And of course, the 'Made in USA' label was found to mean just the label was, or finally assembly or packaging was done in America. Wondering if this is more of an attempt to direct consumers to the 'safer' american made products, which of course would cost more, but isn't your 'health and safety' worth it, crap.
Basically I'm interested in hearing about what's going on in other countries, and whether they are getting 'dangerous' products, even check for such things. Just wondering if this is global, or just domestic. Really tough to rely on the media, the government, or business for accurate information. I figure different countries would have different views on how to deal with these issues, so a different perspective.
Just seems so odd, that after all these year of doing business with China, there would suddenly be so many problems. And I would think China would go into extreme measures to insure that there wouldn't be any major problems for a few months at the very least. So what's really going on.
I've lost count of the number of china recalls this year (not enough fingers, guess china only needs the one).
Also kind of wondering if the problems are that serious, or being exaterated by the media or domestic manufacturers. Ten years ago there was a big push to buy poor quality products, just because it had the 'Made in USA' label on it. It failed mostly because consumers didn't have money to throw away on junk. People shop for best value for the buck, 'made in USA' was a low priority. And of course, the 'Made in USA' label was found to mean just the label was, or finally assembly or packaging was done in America. Wondering if this is more of an attempt to direct consumers to the 'safer' american made products, which of course would cost more, but isn't your 'health and safety' worth it, crap.
Basically I'm interested in hearing about what's going on in other countries, and whether they are getting 'dangerous' products, even check for such things. Just wondering if this is global, or just domestic. Really tough to rely on the media, the government, or business for accurate information. I figure different countries would have different views on how to deal with these issues, so a different perspective.
Just seems so odd, that after all these year of doing business with China, there would suddenly be so many problems. And I would think China would go into extreme measures to insure that there wouldn't be any major problems for a few months at the very least. So what's really going on.