[John123]

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to inspect 21 chocolate factories and 18 dairies in Switzerland.

What's to stop other countries from using this as a precedent to "inspect" USA businesses?

[PGR88]

What's to stop other countries from using this as a precedent to "inspect" USA businesses?

First up, China. Want to sell widgets or computer chips to China? Sorry, you will need an inspection.

[muawiyah]

unbeknownst to just about everybody posting on this it is common for major importers or downstream industries to put their quality and performance inspection processes in place upstream ~ even in other countries, even in the United States.

The USPS for many years has had a presort verification auditor going up to Quebecor to verify processes they use to prepare mailings for the American market ~ if they pass that means the tens of millions of dollars in postage they pay in postage are being correctly computed (given the type, class, indicia and weight of the mail involved in a given mailing).

[bert]

Believe it or don’t but I do it all the time. Foreign governments routinely inspect stuff before shipment