I haven't bought anything at Wal-Mart in years by choice (except I think once last year when we were going off-roading and forgot to grab water at the gas station), and still everything I buy seems to have "China" next to "Made in" on it.

 

The title of this thread is also a bit moronic as well, because '"made in China" products' means everything that's made in China.

 

are you mentally disabled? I don't want to respond uncharitably if the reason for your post was a mental condition you have no control over.

 

[QUOTE=GT_2003,Jun 26 2007, 01:41 PM] are you mentally disabled?

 

Made in China = POS

 

hmmm. So, because everything you buy is made in China, everything everyone buys is made in China? I suppose, by the same token, because everything you buy is the cheapest on the shelf, everything everybody else buys is also the cheapest thing they could find? Because you may look at a label, shrug your shoulders, and toss it into the cart, everybody must do the same?

Have you ever considered there is a reason that label is on there, and you have every opportunity to exercise your judgement prior to purchase? Has it ever occurred to you to put your experience to use and practice some common sense and a little discretion when making purchases? For example, if you are buying a leather belt, check the label. If it says "Made in China," it's a POS produced from scrap leather chopped up and mixed with glue to form "leather." If it says "Made in Argentina" or "Made in Italy" it is most probably an actual single piece of leather that has been cured and cut to form a belt. The scraps from this process are shipped to China :/

I've got nothing against China. But it seems more than a little foolish to insist on buying only products from China, then proclaiming that EVERYTHING IS MADE IN CHINA!!!111!!! China is a growing economy that picks up the low end of the markets. There is little reason for a manufacturer that has an educated and skilled workforce and an existing facility to move production overseas to a developing nation with little infrastructure, a largely uneducated and unskilled labor pool, and very little in the way of oversight. If your product is easily made under those conditions, then sure. Products made by uneducated and unskilled workers are, as a rule, the lowest quality goods, regardless of the country of manufacture. The price tag and a cursory examination of said product would most likely make clear why the product was produced in China rather than Germany or the US or wherever.

Again, it's not that a Chinese factory cannot turn out a quality product, it's that there is little motivation to move manufacturing to China for a high-quality product that is currently being produced elsewhere. If you insist on buying the cheapest products out there, you will certainly be surrounded by "made in China" stickers. But not everybody likes to throw their money away on the cheap crap, and so don't find themselves in a world built by cheap labor.

 

When was the last time you've bought an electronic, such as a TV? Newsflash: most are made or assembled in China.

 

[QUOTE=kumainu,Jun 26 2007, 02:08 PM] When was the last time you've bought an electronic, such as a TV?

 

As long as the product isn't a "home grown in China" product, its ok. It has to pass the quality standards of its parent company which in most cases is NOT Chinese. It seems to be those products which are from Chinese owned companies that are threats to the livelihoods of consumers.

 

We import about, what, $300 billion a year from China, and our GDP is around $13 trillion. So although the share of goods from China is growing rapidly, and I don't know what fraction of GDP is consumer goods, it seems like we should be able to find some things that aren't made in China.