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Originally Posted by Nimetic
This is just knee-jerk nationalism surely.
We might as well say that it's time to stop allowing financial ties with US companies, because they are clearly dishonest and poorly regulated.
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There are some U.S. companies that are corrupt and greedy, for sure. But the level of corruption and greed among some Chinese companies is on a whole other plane of Hell, and a much deeper one at that.
If and when a U.S. company is ever found to be
so corrupt and greedy, that they purposely spike milk products with industrial chemicals like melamine – milk products that are likely to be consumed by babies and children, mind you! –
then we can talk about stopping financial ties with U.S. companies.
Until then, STFU with your accusations of "knee-jerk nationalism". That's
not what this is about.
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Originally Posted by Katyanna
This sounds so incredibly easy even a child could solve it right? The issue is not necessarily in the minimum standards but with the enforcement. Chinese products have one of the highest rates of being refused entry within the U.S., the method is there to inspect, unfortunately there are not the means to enforce it as it should. I read recently that approximately 1% of all imports are inspected, why? Because there are not enough inspectors to keep up with the demand. Why aren't there? Because inspectors cost money, they cannot be everywhere at once. Unfortunately rather than raise the fees on the importation of products to ensure safer inspections we limit ourselves, picking and choosing which to examine. It happens in all Industries, from child care to restaurants.
If we cannot in the U.S. manage to control our inspections in a manner to keep our people safe we either should refuse to import the goods or pass heavy punishments onto the American manufacturers that receive these products and use them in their industries. Force the companies to police themselves or face indefinite closures.
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How about adding the cost of insepctions to the price of the goods? You know, simply make it part of the cost of doing business with foreign companies, especially with those with a record of producing hazardous products?