[GrandMoM]

"Evans said in a speech in Detroit last month that counterfeiters in Guangzhou had copied Wrigley's products, but didn't stop at selling the pirated gum.

"They copied the Wrigley truck. They drove Wrigley's distribution routes. And when they called on Wrigley's accounts, the pirates paid 'premiums' to the shopowners for accepting the counterfeit gum."

Heritage Foundation research fellow John Tkacik said in a report last week that estimating the value of revenue lost because of piracy was an inexact science.

Even so, he added, "Revenue lost due to piracy in China is in the billions of dollars, even by the most conservative estimates."

[.cnI redruM]

Japan used to do that as well. They built an industrial city they called "usa" and instead of printing Made In Japan on their products, they printed "made in usa".

[GOP_1900AD]

Message to Griswold, get a piece of this. My CEO thinks that the wimpy little bits of tightening of borders, customs and export regs post 9/11 is a "knee jerk reaction." Yeah, you and he are in the same cabal. Well here's my knee jerk reaction to idiocy: Tell you what, why don't you turn in your US Passport and get on the next flight to Shanghai, friggin' globalist, anti patriotic, anti national scum.

[harpseal]

Ping

on or off let me know

[lelio]

Evans' visit follows one by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, who warned China last Wednesday that its access to U.S. markets depended on "fair" two-way trade.

Your friend Robert Zoellick at it again. It must of killed him to say "two way trade" as I can't recall him mentioning that before.

[A. Pole]

Heritage analyst Tkacik warned, however, that the impact of U.S. tariffs should be carefully considered. "Across-the-board tariffs on Chinese goods would significantly raise prices for U.S. consumers," he wrote in the report. A more effective response than applying retaliatory tariffs would be for the government to direct trade representative Zoellick to prepare a formal complaint against China at the WTO, he said.

Bump

[ex-snook]

"A more effective response than applying retaliatory tariffs would be for the government to direct trade representative Zoellick to prepare a formal complaint against China at the WTO, he said. "

Wow - A formal complaint! that ought to get their attention.

[waterstraat]

We must resolve this disagreement, so that we can rely on the red Chinese communists even more for our high tech and manufactured needs.

The longer it takes to resolve this disagreement, means that much longer that we will have to employ an american citizen in a job over here to do the work instead of providing a job and income to a chinese commie.

It is critical that we move as many of our jobs and factories to communist china as quickly as we can. This disagreement could potentially cause a slow down in the number of layoffs in America.

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