I think it's more the case that some Chinese companies don't think a deal is a deal. When you contract out something to be built to a spec, you expect that spec throughout the contract. It looks like this Chinese company decided that it was OK to substitute an inferior product sometime through the deal. The simple remedy is to put the American distributor out of business by forcing a recall. No one else will then do business with Yangzhou, simply out of a fear of liability issues. There will also be a general unease with buying from Chinese-owned tire manufacturers, which means the cessation of imports from these firms. Yangzhou may have saved itself millions or even tens of millions of dollars by omitting that feature. But it has just dealt itself out of the US market. And perhaps most of auto tire markets outside of China, if not in China itself. (Chinese consumers are reflexively nationalistic, but they do pay attention to these things. They may profess an ardent nationalism, but most buy foreign cars assembled in China for their superior reliability and fit and finish).
>>>> When you contract out something to be built to a spec, you expect that spec throughout the contract.
It looks like this Chinese company decided that it was OK to substitute an inferior product <<<<<
>>>> Shi Xinbo, an official at Hangzhou Zhongce, said, “We are confident in our quality. <<<<<
Nope they put out a quality product Shi Xinbo even said so.
Want to know how this works?
We can all thank the ISO 9000 BS.
How do you define quality? Well in ISO 9000 a Quality Product is one that meets it’s engineering specifications.
Did ya Catch that?
So it’s tire’s are a quality product. See. So when something don’t work right you use the volume of words in the ISO chapters to blame some low level worker. Then claim to have fixed the problem by terminating ( in this case literally) the worker.
And who runs the ISO standard? The French.
>Yangzhou may have saved itself millions or even tens of
>millions of dollars by omitting that feature. But it has just
>dealt itself out of the US market.
No it hasn’t.
It will simply subcontract with a willing middleman who the American distributor buys from instead because of the low price.