4th of July fireworks brought to you by China

Politico ^ | 07/05/2014 | By ERIC BRADNER

[TurkeyLurkey]

Received these Chinese fireworks last week just in time for the 4th’s celebration—

This Hunan Province town is where fireworks were invented, and the show has never been equalled in the West.
The Chinese are not only the inventors of the fireworks they are still the masters.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/_LpMB1OZ53g?feature=player_detailpage%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allowfullscreen%3e%3c/iframe%3e&autoplay=1";

[FrankR]

I’m 68, when I got fireworks as a kid, they always had Chinese writing all over the packages. This is a story about nothing, from captain obvious.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I respectfully DISPUPT your claim of the superiority of Chinese made pyrotechnics. The PA born, bred, and incorporated ZAMBELLI FAMILY makes some amazing fireworks. The City of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh. Pirates (along w/a lot of other munis and sports) use them exclusively.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Here is the link...familia owned company from New Castle PA (they do PROFESSIONAL shows and it’s a DAMN SHAME if the OBOTS ADM used ChiCom pyros on the Fourth of July!)

http://www.zambellifireworks.com/

[ridesthemiles]

Thought all the fireworks manufacturers were driven OUT of the USA.

[TurkeyLurkey]

It wasn’t my claim, it was the statement that accompanied the fireworks video.

[JoeFromSidney]

The Chinese have been making fireworks since before the days of Marco Polo. They're good at it. International trade depends on "comparative advantage," and they have it. It would be silly to buy inferior fireworks, at higher prices, just to support an American fireworks industry.

Don't forget, international trade is a two-way street. The dollars the Chinese get for fireworks can only be spent in America. In a sane world, the Chinese would be buying American goods for which we have a comparative advantage (like jet aircraft). Instead, in our insane world, the Chinese are buying US government bonds, which only fuels the profligate practices of our government.

[Will88]

Nothing at all wrong with most or all of our fireworks coming from China. They invented gunpowder and fireworks. It’s one of the few authentic Chinese products, invented and developed there, that they sell to the world.

It’s all the products imported from China that were actually invented and developed in the US and other Western nations that are the problem. Forty years ago, about the only thing China had to trade were fireworks and cheap labor, and a few unique agricultural products and native crafts.

Since, they’ve traded their cheap labor for thousands of US plants and a few million US manufacturing jobs. That’s the problem. The fireworks are not a problem.