• exanime@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ok but then we accept anything Chinese made with all the likely human rights abuse, environmental issues, corruption, as long as some American company can act as middle man and take a piece of the pie?

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      1 month ago

      Cheapest production, biggest profits. Yeah. But it’s not necessarily the American company responsible for buying cheap junk. Chinese companies love to get the profits by cheaping out on build material while upselling it as quality products. It’s hard to Check the entire production line and it’s resources as they often come from many different places and there’s barily any quality control within the Chinese factories and it’s supply routes. You don’t know whether they may have cheaped out on one expensive resource by replacing it with a cheap toxic alternative.

      There’s a European quality check for products, the CE logo which stands for “conformité européenne” meaning "European conformity"on commercial products indicates that the manufacturer or importer affirms the goods’ conformity with European health, safety, and environmental protection standards.

      China created an identical looking logo meaning Chinese Exports so they can bypass the EU regulations and use toxins instead of safe resources. It has the logo so people believe it went through the EU checks required to be allowed to use the logo on the product. Instead they add the logo without any quality control as it’s basically a different, yet identical looking logo. This is how China operates.

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        1 month ago

        I believe everything you claim but my question remains… how does American companies, whose entire (or practically entire) production is manufactured in China, avoid those pitfalls?

        Most American companies are not known for reinforcing and over engineering their products, the same cheapening out in materials and corner cutting strategies are applied in North America all the time.

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          but my question remains… how does American companies, whose entire (or practically entire) production is manufactured in China, avoid those pitfalls?

          Good question. Who knows. Maybe have more expensive production in other countries then China, or raw resource import and produce the products yourself. But this is cutting very deep in profits, maybe even impossible as the competition will be a cheaper option for the consumer.

          the same cheapening out in materials and corner cutting strategies are applied in North America all the time.

          May be so, but within the US there are regulations which are (or should be) checked. There are federal bureaus tasked with this. Doesn’t change the fact that many regulations are weird, some non-existant due to loopholes and many regulations are laughable at best compared to EU regulations. But still it’s way better then any unregulated stuff from China, or regulated stuff from China but the guy doing the checks got bribed.