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A Year Without “Made in China"
July 24, 2007 - 07:48 AM
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Is it possible to go for a whole year without buying any products made in China?
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
July 24, 2007 - 09:19 AM
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No..I think not..
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
July 24, 2007 - 02:56 PM
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hahaa. really hard. Last june, my chinese colleague was planing to buy some souveniers for his friends and family in China but he didn't get any interesting thing, which not made in china. so he bought some chocolates..... heheeh...
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
July 25, 2007 - 11:22 AM
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 No absolutely not. Why do we need to ignore goods from other country? I know of the recent outcry of Chinese goods, but who in the world does not have any fault with their goods? No one is perfect and so is China! Chinese goods have a role to play in our lives too!
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
July 25, 2007 - 12:03 PM
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A year without any product from China. It is difficult while Chinese products have overwhelmed much at USA market and some other nations.
But you all can buy around 10% of all of these goods.
This is the way we need to teach and make greedy and careless manufacturers respect and treasure customers as well as customers's life and health.
and i think that we still have products which come from other nations to subsitute for Chinese goods.
According to all of you,
From now on, how many percent will you spend on chinese products and how long is for this percentage ?
This post was edited on: 2007-07-25 at 12:11 PM by: nguyen thi ngoc bich
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
July 26, 2007 - 08:10 AM
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The Nigerian market is an influx of chinese products.
The chinese goods ranging from housewares, Electronics, Clothings are either inferior. cheap or sub-standard.
To a large extent , the chinese goods are affordable and sometimes as good as those of italy, uk, u s and others.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
August 16, 2007 - 07:09 AM
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Yes Chinese products are taking over market nowdays.
But one thing is that, their goods differs, like products meant for USA, Europe etc are different in quality compare with ones meant for Africas
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
August 16, 2007 - 10:12 PM
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plato123 wrote:
Yes Chinese products are taking over market nowdays.
But one thing is that, their goods differs,* like products meant for USA, Europe etc are different in quality compare with ones meant for Africas**
WHY?
Dear Plato, Shorty and others,
As I mentioned in another thread, I have tried for a long time not to buy Chinese products. For me, it was more out of concern about Chinese human rights violations and concern for the environment. My environmental concern is about the high environmental cost of shipping products across the ocean and the phenomenon of developed countries exporting their polluting industries to the emerging countries. The new concerns about Chinese product safety seem to have finally caught the world's attention.
But I agree it is very difficult not to buy Chinese products. My tennis shoes I am wearing are made in China. Is there a difference in quality between Chinese products sent to Africa and those sent to, say, America? In today's newspaper there is a letter from an American complaining about poor quality cooking timer clocks from China he bought at Walmarts (a big department store known for cheap prices that forces many small shop owners to close their stores). I spent lots of time in Romania before it joined the European Union. It was a very poor country then, and I noticed many products from pens to gas ranges were of very poor quality. They all came from Turkey, however, not China. Often in poor countries, shopkeepers stock only the very cheapest products they can find.
I am also aware that a "buy local" strategy in the developed countries is not good for developing countries which are trying to export manufactured and agricultural goods. The global economy we live in today brings many hard decisions with it.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
August 17, 2007 - 01:28 AM
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Yes Chinese products are taking over market nowdays.
But one thing is that, their goods differs,* like products meant for USA, Europe etc are different in quality compare with ones meant for Africas**
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In my opinion, because they are produred to sell poorer nations.
For example: a soap with name. "DIAL"
in USA its scent is longer and more impressing.
In VN its scent is normal and not impressing.
I bought the Dial soap at my market and was dissapointed. It was more inferior comparing with the first soaps which I had had from USA. and since that time I have not bought the brand in my market anymore.
Perhaps, cheap things are often no good.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
August 19, 2007 - 09:34 PM
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bich wrote:
Yes Chinese products are taking over market nowdays.
But one thing is that, their goods differs,* like products meant for USA, Europe etc are different in quality compare with ones meant for Africas**
WHY?
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In my opinion, because they are produred to sell poorer nations.
For example: a soap with name. "DIAL"
in USA its scent is longer and more impressing.
In VN its scent is normal and not impressing.
I bought the Dial soap at my market and was dissapointed. It was more inferior comparing with the first soaps which I had had from USA. and since that time I have not bought the brand in my market anymore.
Perhaps, cheap things are often no good.
I think this is a down side of globalization. I suspect that DIAL soap was made in Vietnam or China under license from the Americian company. It therefore uses local ingredients and manufacturing techniques, which may not be the same as in the USA. It would be much too expensive to export soap to Vietnam from the USA.
Another major problem today is product "piracy" where many consumer products are labeled with top brand names, but were really made illegally with inferior ingredients. China has been very negligent about protecting consumers and companies from this crime. I don't know the situation in Vietnam.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
August 19, 2007 - 10:34 PM
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Dear friends,
At VN, consumerism and piracy is also negligent.
especially about food safety. you can read some information at My blog such as lead-poisoning in vegetable, formaldehyde in rice products. borax in pork pies.
recently I have read an article. It said that invention more and more progress at China. if China doesn't have much more responsibilty, it will damge much for this nation.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
August 23, 2007 - 03:25 PM
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What a funny Question? ,Do i see others views the way it is in Nigeria.Though with all measures in place we encourage Chinese products .
If china had to give out awards to there best Customers ,i see no reason why Nigeria wont pick up the awards in every sections.
This might sound too funny but its true. About 90% of goods imported to Nigeria are Chinese products. Though on my own side of view i see it as a kind of meeting up with the super rich.Coz if 1 can not afford a certain commodity at its original price you ought to have a choice and thats goin for da cheaper commodity, which are being produced by CHINA.
I know that its nat only china that produce substandard good but there 's is out of hand.
So u see ,theres no way u can live without MADE IN CHINA goods.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
September 5, 2007 - 06:19 AM
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never. Chinese products are all over so it appears they are here to stay. Yet they are rarely if ever subjected to standard tests.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
September 10, 2007 - 02:00 AM
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[b] good day!
probably i could say is that, here in my country (the philippines), chinese products will always be part of our economy as well as in everyday life of the Filipinos.. though there were lots of complaints against chinese products in our country due to qualitatively incompetent and whenever the people heard of some of the chinese products they thought of "s......", still we respect the way China handles their products. Besides not all chinese products are incompetent. So we try to sort things out which we think will best suit our taste and standard.
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Re: A Year Without “Made in China"
September 14, 2007 - 11:55 PM
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i don't think this would be an easy task, but by limiting it. not making it dissapear but limiting it would decrease the amount of gasand maybe help stop global warning
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