http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21421878/
Shoppers make sacrifices to avoid China goods
That includes everything from TVs, toys, sporting equipment and clothing
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Laura Grossi, the assistant manager of Kinder Haus Toys, removes toys from the store’s shelves in Arlington, Va. In the wake of recalls of millions of toys with lead paint and other dangers, seafood tainted with chemical residues and toothpaste containing an antifreeze chemical, some U.S. consumers have become wary of Chinese goods.
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WASHINGTON – Instead of presents, Mary Naden gives her teenaged children skateboard lessons or takes them on outings — an effort, she says, to avoid buying goods made in China.
“I like my cheap goods, too, but there’s something that just sticks in my craw,” said Naden, 49, who lives in suburban Washington and works as a vocal coach.
In the wake of recalls of millions of toys with lead paint and other dangers, seafood tainted with chemical residues and toothpaste containing an antifreeze chemical, some U.S. consumers have become wary of Chinese goods.
A total of 75.8 percent of almost 1,000 people surveyed said they would not buy Chinese-made toys, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on October 17.
On September 19, a similar poll found that 16 percent were buying no Chinese-made goods at all and 23 percent would not buy food or toothpaste from China.
“I say good luck to those people,” said Mary Teagarden, a long-time China watcher who teaches at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. “It’s the finest American tradition.”
In addition to safety hazards, people who said they were avoiding Chinese-made products cited a number of reasons, including human rights and the environment.
“It’s a repressive and yet huge regime that just doesn’t care about its own people, doesn’t care about its own rivers, doesn’t care what it’s dumping in the ocean,” said Naden.
Blame game
Teagarden said Western companies like Mattel Inc. that blamed China for the safety problems were being disingenuous since many were due to design problems — like loose magnets in MEGA Brands Inc’s Magnetix, which killed a child.
But she also urged companies to control their supply chains rather than trust vendors.
“For the Chinese, immediate family is in and everybody else is out. If you’re in, they’d never do that to you, but if you’re out, beware,” she said.
No one could argue that Beijing is unconcerned about tainted products. In July, China executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog, Zheng Xiaoyu, for taking bribes and dereliction of duty.
He had been linked to a scandal in which tainted medicine killed 13 patients in the southern city of Guangzhou.
“They wanted to send a message nationally,” said Teagarden. ”It was local people using these medicines.”
Kama Coma 
pfffff
dirty politics~~~
to those Americans who blame these, you can go back to your dear US, you are not welcomed
when you say that chinese products are not good, but they are still in your company, it\’s your QC department\’s flaut!!!
pffffffffff
damn it
calm, dear
The Americans are avoiding tainted imported goods, we did the same when meet Sudan and Nestle, though the article is rhetorical and politic-leading, it point out how weak we are in Food and Medicine Safety. try to avoid anger, which make easier way to getting old =]
The best way to deal with Rumor is to annouce everything clearly and loudly to everybody.
The best way to deal with Rumor is to annouce everything clearly and loudly to everybody.
The best way to deal with Rumor is to annouce everything clearly and loudly to everybody.
last time my boss told me that european country said Chinese manufacture are not in good quanlity after about 3 years use, and of course they think it is not our fault, they didnt say that 3 years ago but now.
i just answered coldly it is nothing just politics. if they did something, i believe my country would have reaction.