Chinese exporters of furniture face tariffs from U.S.

Not ever innovation works. Silicon impregnated cylinder walls in solid aluminum blocks (instead of sleved iron walls in aluminum blocks) were a novel idea, but short lived in real life, where people failed to change oil regularly.

If you are making excuses for the Chevy Vega, you might as well sing the praises of the GM 350 gasoline engine converted to diesel that blew up at 35,000 miles or the Caprice Classic with the nylon reverse gear that heated and cracked at 50,000 miles.

Where are we going with this conversation anyhow?

Are you trying to imply that there would be no improvements in the US without foreign procducts.

In the automobile industry, there would have been little significant improvement in auto quality without the introduction of Japanese imports. I don't think you will find many disagreeing with this position.

And no, we are not still using ric shaws. We have something that goes a we bit faster than that. 430km/h give or take a few.

Shanghai Mag Lev

123 - LOL - "In the automobile industry, there would have been little significant improvement in auto quality without the introduction of Japanese imports. I don't think you will find many disagreeing with this position."

Wow - Just about everybody would disagree. Americans invented mass production of automobiles and just about all the major innovations in them from the beginning.

Dr. W. Edwards Deming did good work, teaching the Japanese the principles of Total Quality Management.

The US did have a decline in quality of Auto's in the 70's, and early 80's, when the liberals were taking over, and the corporations got too greedy. We got over it, and Demming and his Japanese students did help speed up the process.

Nice train. The Germans do good work don't they? Too bad nobody can afford to ride it, even when we Americans paid for it. A good example of why I have a problem with trade with China.

No body on earth has yet to find a way to make mag-lev economical, even in China. And with $1000 per year average per capita income, no one will ride it, though you do have enough people to support ridership.

Here in the US we have been screwing around with Mag-lev for years, but it's just not economical enough and not practical enough. We really don't have the population density for great mass transit, so we all have cars. Much better suited to our way of life. Sort of like the Supersonic Transport, not very efficient.

Wow - Just about everybody would disagree. Americans invented mass production of automobiles and just about all the major innovations in them from the beginning.

You need to read more closely. Quite obviously we are not talking about the beginning of auto production when mention is made of Japanese imports. It is a fact that U.S. quality in cars was not up to standard at the time Japanese imports started arriving on U.S. shores.

Japanese cars were a joke, until Deming (an American) taught the Japs how to improve quality. Americans made all the major discoveries and improvements throughout automotive history, up until now. For a time in the 70's and 80's, quality slipped when the Unions and Corporations got greedy.

My last Dodge pickup went 20 years with no major repairs, and my brother ran it another 10. My current Dodge picup is still doing fine after 18 years, and still burns no oil (zero).I did put some new brakes on it at about 165,000 miles though. tell me about American quality.

No it won't. The retail prices charged in the U.S. hardly reflect the difference in cost between U.S. goods and Chinese. There's a small difference, just enough to undercut the U.S. goods. Why should they pass on the savings? They know people will buy just because they save 5%. They pocket the difference, and it's a big difference. The dumping isn't showing up in furniture store showrooms - it's on the bills to the wholesalers, who are cleaning up.

I am in the furniture industry in the wholesale side. Yes, prices for wooden Chinese-made bedroom furniture is going to increase the costs to the consumer. Take the 10% tariff placed on the 80 something companies. That will mean that the consumers will pay in the ball park of 20%-25% more at retail for that piece of furniture.

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