When your out shopping, do you ever turn things over and if made in China you don't buy it?

Question

I quit buying anything made in China, since I keep hearing they will become the world's economic super power soon.

Answer 1

Absolutely!!!

I quit buying things "Made in China" over 10 years ago.

I am not against Fair Trade. I am against items that were traditionally made in the USA & Americans losing jobs because these items are now manufactured in China.

Many of these items are inferior: poor quality, bad craftsmanship or workmanship, in essence they are cheap.

Many things are quite difficult to find w/o components made in China especially electronics & some things are completely made in China.

VCR's, Digital Cameras, Computers...however Japan & Korea's technology is as good if not better then China's.

I refuse to buy clothes made in China...I will however buy clothing made in other counties. Such as India, they have some of the best cotton clothing & Russia has very well-made clothing.

Have you bought shoes lately? 8 out of every 10 pairs of shoes are "made in China". Even traditional USA brand shoes have switched to Chinese production, such as Eastland & Bass. I recently noticed that some Birkenstocks (which were originally German) are now "made in China"!

I love catalogs like L.L. Bean that specify where an item is made. L.L. Bean will also pay for the return shipping if you return an item because the country's origin was misrepresented in their catalog. Once one of their descriptions said "USA or China"...a customer service representative actually went into their flagship store in Maine & found the USA item & shipped it to me because I did not want the China item. They are this good!

I definitely will NOT buy plastics made in China (storage bowls), there was a case in PA a few years ago that made headlines about a church picnic, where a couple of senior citizens died &, several others including children were taken to the hospital due to Poisoning...it was originally thought the people had suffered food poisoning when actually it was found to be PCB's leached from the plastics bowls bought at a dollar type store. The bowls were made in China. The article went on to say, that many countries do not have the same manufacturing standards with plastics as the US does.

Probably the only thing that I would buy actually made in China...would be antique authentic "China" (dishware). :-)

So stick to your guns & read those labels, save those American jobs. :-)

P.S. Smiles-->Took me 7 tries before I could find an American flag made in the USA & I had to buy it via the internet, because Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal Mart, Kmart & Kohl's did not carry them!!!

Answer 2

No, actually, I don't. I probably should, just based on their human rights history. I still don't understand why we have open trade with them, yet we keep an embargo on Cuba.

And I do know that we get more from China than people realize. A great deal of our seafood comes from there now. Frozen shrimp, fish fillets, etc. A lot of that is harvested now in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Even though the package will tell you that it was "packed" in the United States, somewhere on that bag there will be a "country of origin" sticker or stamp.

A lot of those these days are from China, as they can raise and process shrimp and fish less expensively than it can be done here. That might be something worth looking at if you eat a lot of frozen seafood.

And to that "open minded" liberal dork down there, maybe if you'd eat a slab of beef once in a while, you wouldn't need to smoke so much pot- and quit emailing me that PETA crap- I don't care!!!

Answer 3

I do, but it's tough to keep up with. I own 2 "American made" cars, both assembled in Canada. I bought a new "American-made" Fender guitar a few years back, only to find out that it was assembled in the US from Mexican and Korean parts. Very little is actually "made in America", any more. You'd be hard-pressed to find any major purchase made in America from American parts.

The biggest Chinese import I'm concerned with is money. China owns $820 billion of our national debt as of the end of 2005. This puts us at a huge disadvantage when dealing with them.

A large part of this money has been spent buying US Treasuries and other debt instruments, helping to keep American interest rates low.


If China was suddenly to sell off Treasuries, it could potentially cause US interest rates to rise, wreaking significant damage on the US economy.

This puts us at a huge disadvantage when dealing with them.

Answer 4

LOL That's funny. I am careful about buying toys made in china as most of their crayons are toxic and will poison kids and pets and the toys are cheaply made and will fall apart presenting a choking hazard or a disappointed child. I do try to buy Canadian or American even if it costs way more. Just because I want to keep our economies booming. I can't stay away from Chinese food though-as my Father and StepFather are Chinese-so I really grew up eating it lol

Answer 5

I used to do that. But, then the Chinese started making quality products. The president wants us to buy American.

I will as soon as America starts making the products I need at a reasonable price. That means the idiot president is going to have to bring back some of those jobs that were outsourced.

In other words, it's going to have to be worth my while and money.

Answer 6

I don't buy "Made in China" either, because I prefer to buy American made products, even if more expensive, to support our economy. I also do it because workers of all ages are treated abysmally in China.

I haven't been to Wal-Mart in years, it is almost impossible to find USA products there.

Answer 7

As a liberal, I try to keep a more open mind. Yes, they have a bad history, but maybe they're nicer now.

And you shouldn't eat that frozen seafood that my Republican friend is talking about up there. All meat is bad. Go Vegetarian and don't look back!

Answer 8

i do some things that i need...........but things i don't need i will not buy if made in china b/c of the child labor and b/c yes..........they are one of the most powerful besides us. screw CHINA haha
jk

Answer 9

i try not to but there's a lot of things where you have to buy china's goods just because nixon sold us out and bush sent them our jobs

Answer 10

Yes, I have but not for that reason. I do it because we buy so many things from there to help their economy and they buy next to nothing from us in return to help ours.