At what point do we stop accepting goods from China?

Question

Pet food, toothpaste, seafood, peanut butter, canned foods, toys....everytime I look at the news there's another product from China that is being pulled off the shelf because it poses a danger to people or animals. Why are we still buying these or ANY products from China? Why not boycott these products? Ultimately this mess could end up being very good for the United States. It consumers will only buy domestic products, more domestic products will be produced, creating jobs and strengthening the economy. Can it be done?

Answer 1

I agree with you 100% I am looking at items I purchase now. I am thinking many others will be also. A lot is being done both here and in China. They have got to keep a better controll on matters like this. (They being our government) I feel that it will change one way or another.

Answer 2

Yes it can be done...but the catch is, it can't be done while keeping these same products at their current cheap prices. Americans will keep buying products from China BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEAP and Americans want as much as possible for as little as possible, and China so far has been an easy solution to that.

Would you be willing to pay triple the price or more of any of the stuff you mention? Would you pay $10 for a jar of peanut butter? China is pretty much the epitome of a cheap labor market, although that is starting to change as the country becomes more industrialized. Just take a look at the problems the Ford Motor Company is having...where they once dominated the market, they are now experiencing all sorts of problems with rising health care costs, pay structures, and pension plan costs. All of this is built into their product, which makes the prices go up. If the companies making this other stuff had to deal with all of that, the prices would go up a lot more too. But using cheap Chinese labor where they don't need to pay for all that stuff, they don't have to factor it all into the end product cost.

Answer 3

Boycott the products from China? Who is going to do that? the people that has that power are heavily involved into the companies that produce all the products in question. If that was not so then Chinese products would have been taken off the shelves already, simply because the west has no interest or money to lose.

You said it, consumers have a lot of power if only they would use it, but then again the economy is geared so that people can only buy what they can afford in the shops.

Answer 4

AMEN, BROTHER!!! A local TV station has
been doing a series of investigating seafood
restaurants. They found that the snapper and
grouper were not what they claimed. It was
something else entirely. Then they went to
one of these third world countries and saw
the water where these fish were raised. Filth
is all I could see. Now when I eat seafood
I go to a place where I know the owner
personally and is a good friend. I KNOW
where he gets his supply from.

Answer 5

You are wrong that it could be good for the US. Don't believe democrates who say international trade is bad. They are wrong. I hope they are lieing. Because, if they really believe it's bad, they are going to be horrible presidents. International trade brings goods to us cheaper, and, it brings different goods to us. It's not a zero-sum game. Creating jobs? That's stupid. Don't count jobs. Make every job count. This what we call the "broken window fallacy". I can throw a rock through a window: this would create a job. But, isn't that stupid? Why break a window just for a job. The jobs argument against international trade is no different. I wish everybody would take a course in economics. You hear a lot of lies about trade.

Answer 6

we don't
I don't exactly want to go back to the "good-ole" days where each person had to grow their own food, make their own toothpaste not to mention invent it in the first place, and everything else. if you want to take a huge cut in pay then why don't you start a company and actually produce something then you can sell it at less then market price, I buy it. Until then, I choose to purchase the best goods at the lowest price and if they come from china I say good that means we have more resources to make other stuff I'd like to have

Answer 7

AT NO POINT! We are in an era of globalization and it is only through competition unscrupulous traders can be or will get weeded out. Other measures such as protectionism, sanctions, banning imports etc. will be short-term and negative.

Answer 8

i dont think we should accept anything from china.look at the dog food that was tainted,and killed dogs and cats.and then theres the paint on toys.it is lead paint.sold at walmart.only buy things that are made in america.

Answer 9

When the big corporation CEOs can see in a color other than money.

Answer 10

WHEN WE STOP SHOPPING AT WAL MART