When Cheap Products Kill: Emerging Global Trade Regulations

Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2007

[cinives]

IOW you don’t prosper by killing your customers.

[pnh102]

Which is why China will eventually adopt U.S. and European Union regulatory standards, to everyone's benefit.

The only way to make that happen is to slap restrictions on Chinese imports. Hitting them where it hurts, in the wallet, will be the only incentive the Chinese have to change things.

On a related note, don't people normally start revolutions over this sort of thing?

[Kaslin]

Time to take China of the most favorite nation list

[Chode]

China Industries International

their new corporate logo...

[cinives]

And long past time for people to demand truth in advertising.

I want to know where my food and medicine is made, including the ingredients.

[Dustbunny]

Communists are really good liars they’ll never change. They’ll clean up their act for a while but it won’t last.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

China really doesn’t care much about the lives of its own people and could care less about ours.

[Red in Blue PA]

“globalization is good”

“globalization is good”

“globalization is good”

“globalization is good”

“globalization is good”

“globalization is good”

Where are these freepers?

[RSmithOpt]

What we all have been reading about, or at worst, experiencing first-hand.....is only the tip of the iceberg with respect to cheap tainted and poisonous imported food products.

Heck, the FDA cannot even control the BS greed or oversight mistakes in our own country with respect to 'bad' food.....now just how are we gonna be protected? Heck, the feds cannot even control 2000 miles of border or get 750 miles of wall / fence built in 2 years.

[RSmithOpt]

Communists are masters at 'the smoke-n-mirrors game', not to mention rampant corruption.

I never buy anything from China anymore, or Asia with regards to food and I won't the remainder of my days left on this earth... I'll grow my own or shop at the farmers market.

[RSmithOpt]

EXACTLY!

[mom4kittys]

[stopem]

LOL.....EXACTLY!

There is a candidate running for President who happens to be adored and idolized that is a GLOBALIST.......{{shudder}}

[hedgetrimmer]

Hitting them where it hurts, in the wallet, will be the only incentive

Too many in Congress (and the White House) have financial interests in China. They would rather see Americans die and America destroyed rather than lose a penny of it.

[Calpernia]

ping

[JLLH]

Push for the COOL law. Not much buzz on talk radio or other conservative sites about it. It’s a shame because it would aid free market rather than inhibit. All about choices for consumers.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.

[bk1000]

Simple answer: Don’t buy Chinese goods. It will be tough for a bit, but manufacturers will get the message.

[JLLH]

That’s what I’m trying to do, but it’s hard when the distributor is all that’s mentioned and you just don’t know.