China Economy Forum

[Zero_wing]

Oh you funny little baboon. Vast majority of computer components have Chinese parts one way of the other. Did you think Taiwan, South Korea and Japan make the complete production chain? If so, you are even more retarded than I thought. Even the much touted iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxies are made in China under contract from Apple and Samsung. Perhaps you should stick to the topic of growing bananas or housekeeping, since that is all your country is capable of.

Racist Racism and stereotyping that has no real life application typical racist chinamen rants its dime in a dozen hey speaking of stereotypes why would just give me change from my laundry you smelly old chinaman.

 

[Truth Finder]

China’s poisonous exports
PRC products aren’t just cheap, they’re dangerous

The Chinese have peddled numerous toxic products to American consumers, including everything from children’s toys to adult vitamins to pet food. The U.S. government regularly stops more poisonous or faulty products at the border that were imported from the PRC than from any other nation. In April 2011, for example, the Food and Drug Administration issued 197 import refusals for Chinese goods, compared to 107 for India and 105 for Mexico, the two next most prolific purveyors of bad merchandise. Some of the 197 goods refused for entry into America included hazardous cardiograph machines, cosmetics, pet medicine, diet drugs, orthodontic parts, surgical bandages, frozen spinach, asparagus and candy.
These examples were compiled by simply taking the first 10 products from the list, not by searching for the most egregious cases. The inspector’s note on a batch of refused fish gave this reason for his thumb’s down: “The article appears to consist in whole or in part of a ******, putrid or decomposed substance or be otherwise unfit for food.” This incriminating judgment speaks to the huge risks associated with a vast range of products exported from China. Unfortunately, merely stopping a poisonous product at a port of entry doesn’t necessarily prevent it from ending up in an American home because corrupt Chinese exporters often re-ship refused products, hoping they will eventually slip past U.S. officials. In no uncertain terms, nothing from China can be assumed to be safe.
In February 2011, a research team from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital tested lead levels in ceramic plates, bowls, teacups, spoons and other items that were made in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and offered for sale in shops in Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood as well as Chinese-made wares sold at stores elsewhere. Among all this kitchenware, 25.3 percent of the products from Chinatown were lead-positive and 10 percent of the Chinese goods from outside Chinatown had lead in them. “We were astounded - astounded - to find so many of them positive for lead,” said Dr. Gerald O'Malley, a toxicologist who spearheaded the study and warned that lead in Chinese products presents a serious public health threat. Lead in eating utensils can seep into food and beverages, poisoning unsuspecting innocents.
Perhaps the most outrageous aspect of China’s toxic trade is the thousands of contaminated toys that are shipped abroad to unsuspecting toddlers. In 2008, Healthytoys.org found that 21 percent of toys made in China contained detectable levels of lead. In 2009, Mr. Squiggles - a stuffed hamster toy made for kids three years old and up by Zhu Zhu Pets that was one of the most popular gifts that Christmas - was found to contain a cancer-causing metallic chemical called antimony.* In 2011, Tween Brands Inc. recalled 137,000 pieces of jewelry marketed for kids 12 years old and under for containing dangerously high levels of cadmium, a metallic chemical that can cause cancer and damage to the liver and bones, resulting in death or brain retardation in the young. The state of California limits cadmium content in jewelry to a tiny 0.03 percent; some of the recalled Tween Brands products had cadmium levels of 69 percent.

Chinese-made jewelry pulled off the shelves by the Consumer Products Safety Commission in 2010 included items that had cadmium levels of over 90 percent. “On the CDC’s [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7,” according to the Associated Press. In the past few years, toxic Chinese products sold to American kids have included dolls, toy trucks, Elmo, Big Bird, Dora the Explorer, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, the Princess and the Frog, and Best Friends bracelets, to name just a few. Many of these were distributed by Mattel, Fisher-Price and other famous toy brands. More than 80 percent of all toys are made in China. Many are potential killers.
Chinese toys are dangerous because they often contain lead, cadmium and other toxins that are harmful for little kids who put things in their mouths they’re not supposed to. But people of all ages are equally at risk when putting Chinese goods in their mouths that are intended to be there: food. A 2011 lawsuit against the Whole Foods grocery chain alleges that frozen vegetables sold at its stores are made by prisoners in China and irrigated by a polluted river.
That kind of allegation against exported Chinese food is nothing new; there are thousands of cases of rotten and contaminated Chinese produce being sold in America. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration only inspects 1 percent of imports, which means a lot of bad stuff ends up on our plates. In 2011, there were cases in America of Chinese berries laced with salmonella and rotted fish coated with pesticides. In one four-month period, “The FDA rejected 298 shipments from China that included ‘******’ fruits, cancer-causing shrimp and ‘poisonous’ swordfish,” according to Consumer Reports. In many cases, to hide dodgy items such as rotten meat, Chinese exporters label the containers as something entirely different, such as dried flowers. Other common but dangerous food items exported here from the PRC include frozen catfish pumped with illegal antibiotics, pesticide-packed mushrooms, apples with carcinogenic preservatives, and bacteria-plagued sardines and scallops.
Next time you set the table for dinner, you could be endangering the health of your family with contaminated food from China. In fact, it might not even be safe to sit at the table at all. Glass-topped patio sets sold by Martha Stewart Living have exploded into thousands of shards for no apparent reason; Martha Stewart refused to give refunds or exchanges, instead conveniently blaming a Chinese supplier that had since gone out of business.
In June 2011, Food & Water Watch, a consumer advocacy group, released a shocking expose of imported Chinese food products. “China’s food exports to the U.S. have tripled over the past decade to nearly 4 billion pounds of food in 2010, worth nearly $5 billion. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration prevented over 9,000 unsafe products from entering the country between 2006 and 2010,” according to the report. This is important because many staples of the American diet now come mostly from the PRC, including two-thirds of our apple juice (400 million gallons a year), over 75 percent of our tilapia (288 million pounds in 2010), 50 percent of cod, 20 percent of spinach, 90 percent of vitamin C supplements, and more than 88 million pounds of candy.
It’s not just our human loved ones that are at risk from toxic Chinese products; our little furry friends aren’t safe either. In 2007, 154 brands of pet food with Chinese ingredients were recalled after thousands of cat and dog deaths and illnesses were reported in connection with poisoning from melamine, a chemical used in fertilizer, pools and fire retardants. The same year, the U.S. government held back 20 million American chickens from going to market because PRC-sourced feed contained melamine.
Americans are putting our nation in hock to a communist power for loans so we can buy more stuff at a lower price. In return, we are getting tainted produce, exploding patio tables and killer stuffed animals. Lead toys threaten our kids and poisonous pet food kills our animals. Moreover, there has been no discernible improvement in the safety of Chinese imports in the past decade, showing that Beijing has no interest in cleaning up its toxic trade. In fact, the opposite is the case; more contaminated products are making it into our stores as we buy more Chinese merchandise every year.
Health and safety standards should not be so hard to guarantee, especially in China. Supposedly, the authoritarian government has ironfisted control of the country, which means it should be able to put a lid on the regulatory violations behind the toxic trade. Of course, in reality the communists don’t want to clean up many of their exports because doing so could hurt the bottom line. They will cut any corner - or any throat - to get ahead, and American consumers continue to feed the beast.

 

[Fsjal]

Racist Racism and stereotyping that has no real life application typical racist chinamen rants its dime in a dozen hey speaking of stereotypes why would just give me change from my laundry you smelly old chinaman.

Oh wow, using racist remarks. Oh the irony.

Think before posting, fart brain fool.

 

[Zero_wing]

Oh wow, using racist remarks. Oh the irony.

Think before posting, fart brain fool.

God your just good on sick kicks are you! If your a true filipino you will know this wala basagan ng trip. God this just proves your just faker like all the illegal products coming from china.

 

[S10]

Racist Racism and stereotyping that has no real life application typical racist chinamen rants its dime in a dozen hey speaking of stereotypes why would just give me change from my laundry you smelly old chinaman.

Do you even look at your own baboon rant before you accuse others of racism? Don't you have some bananas to pick from trees?

God your just good on sick kicks are you! If your a true filipino you will know this wala basagan ng trip. God this just proves your just faker like all the illegal products coming from china.

Keep taking your medication on time. Rabies are common amongst baboons.

 

[tranquilium]

This is something Chinese government should make an effort to crack down on. Many Chinese are afraid to buyvtheir nation's products. This also gives a bad rep to good Chinese companies.

You are looking at this the wrong way. The quality of Chinese products are constantly improving, the thing is, as Chinese product improves, they also take up more and more market. In fact, the rate of increase for Chinese market share outpaces the rate for quality improvement, this is because as Chinese products gain more market, it also put more Europeans out of business, thus farther increase Chinese market share. This means even though Chinese products are getting better, the percentage number of alerts regarding something that is from China also increases.

A much better idea is to look China's percentage share in European trade:

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-GI-11-001/EN/KS-GI-11-001-EN.PDF
Page 21 shows that:
export to EU from China (bn Euro):
2001: 45,797
2010: 234.954
total export to Eu from the world:
2001: 899,480
2010: 1,389,124
thus Chinese market share in Europe is:
2001: 5.09%
2010: 16.9%
The Chinese share in European market is three times of what it was. Basically, there is more report on Chinese product simply because there ARE more Chinese products overall.

 

[Tshering22]

Europeans want to cut costs; and yet want Bentley-level quality.

How is that possible? Either they adopt German philosophy of 'quality goods but at premuim price' and then all will follow that, or they make it clear that they want cheap stuff from not-so-big companies in China while shunning the better companies there.

They need to make up their mind.

 

[Audio]

The Chinese share in European market is three times of what it was. Basically, there is more report on Chinese product simply because there ARE more Chinese products overall.

lol this is nice chi bot logic. Let's kill it.

You wrote the percentage of Chinese goods in Europe is almost 17%. But 58% of all complaints are because of goods made in China. See the discrepancy? 17 vs 58?

 

[Hafizzz]

China’s poisonous exports
PRC products aren’t just cheap, they’re dangerous

The Chinese have peddled numerous toxic products to American consumers, including everything from children’s toys to adult vitamins to pet food. The U.S. government regularly stops more poisonous or faulty products at the border that were imported from the PRC than from any other nation. In April 2011, for example, the Food and Drug Administration issued 197 import refusals for Chinese goods, compared to 107 for India and 105 for Mexico, the two next most prolific purveyors of bad merchandise. Some of the 197 goods refused for entry into America included hazardous cardiograph machines, cosmetics, pet medicine, diet drugs, orthodontic parts, surgical bandages, frozen spinach, asparagus and candy.
These examples were compiled by simply taking the first 10 products from the list, not by searching for the most egregious cases. The inspector’s note on a batch of refused fish gave this reason for his thumb’s down: “The article appears to consist in whole or in part of a ******, putrid or decomposed substance or be otherwise unfit for food.” This incriminating judgment speaks to the huge risks associated with a vast range of products exported from China. Unfortunately, merely stopping a poisonous product at a port of entry doesn’t necessarily prevent it from ending up in an American home because corrupt Chinese exporters often re-ship refused products, hoping they will eventually slip past U.S. officials. In no uncertain terms, nothing from China can be assumed to be safe.
In February 2011, a research team from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital tested lead levels in ceramic plates, bowls, teacups, spoons and other items that were made in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and offered for sale in shops in Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood as well as Chinese-made wares sold at stores elsewhere. Among all this kitchenware, 25.3 percent of the products from Chinatown were lead-positive and 10 percent of the Chinese goods from outside Chinatown had lead in them. “We were astounded - astounded - to find so many of them positive for lead,” said Dr. Gerald O'Malley, a toxicologist who spearheaded the study and warned that lead in Chinese products presents a serious public health threat. Lead in eating utensils can seep into food and beverages, poisoning unsuspecting innocents.
Perhaps the most outrageous aspect of China’s toxic trade is the thousands of contaminated toys that are shipped abroad to unsuspecting toddlers. In 2008, Healthytoys.org found that 21 percent of toys made in China contained detectable levels of lead. In 2009, Mr. Squiggles - a stuffed hamster toy made for kids three years old and up by Zhu Zhu Pets that was one of the most popular gifts that Christmas - was found to contain a cancer-causing metallic chemical called antimony.* In 2011, Tween Brands Inc. recalled 137,000 pieces of jewelry marketed for kids 12 years old and under for containing dangerously high levels of cadmium, a metallic chemical that can cause cancer and damage to the liver and bones, resulting in death or brain retardation in the young. The state of California limits cadmium content in jewelry to a tiny 0.03 percent; some of the recalled Tween Brands products had cadmium levels of 69 percent.

Chinese-made jewelry pulled off the shelves by the Consumer Products Safety Commission in 2010 included items that had cadmium levels of over 90 percent. “On the CDC’s [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7,” according to the Associated Press. In the past few years, toxic Chinese products sold to American kids have included dolls, toy trucks, Elmo, Big Bird, Dora the Explorer, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, the Princess and the Frog, and Best Friends bracelets, to name just a few. Many of these were distributed by Mattel, Fisher-Price and other famous toy brands. More than 80 percent of all toys are made in China. Many are potential killers.
Chinese toys are dangerous because they often contain lead, cadmium and other toxins that are harmful for little kids who put things in their mouths they’re not supposed to. But people of all ages are equally at risk when putting Chinese goods in their mouths that are intended to be there: food. A 2011 lawsuit against the Whole Foods grocery chain alleges that frozen vegetables sold at its stores are made by prisoners in China and irrigated by a polluted river.
That kind of allegation against exported Chinese food is nothing new; there are thousands of cases of rotten and contaminated Chinese produce being sold in America. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration only inspects 1 percent of imports, which means a lot of bad stuff ends up on our plates. In 2011, there were cases in America of Chinese berries laced with salmonella and rotted fish coated with pesticides. In one four-month period, “The FDA rejected 298 shipments from China that included ‘******’ fruits, cancer-causing shrimp and ‘poisonous’ swordfish,” according to Consumer Reports. In many cases, to hide dodgy items such as rotten meat, Chinese exporters label the containers as something entirely different, such as dried flowers. Other common but dangerous food items exported here from the PRC include frozen catfish pumped with illegal antibiotics, pesticide-packed mushrooms, apples with carcinogenic preservatives, and bacteria-plagued sardines and scallops.
Next time you set the table for dinner, you could be endangering the health of your family with contaminated food from China. In fact, it might not even be safe to sit at the table at all. Glass-topped patio sets sold by Martha Stewart Living have exploded into thousands of shards for no apparent reason; Martha Stewart refused to give refunds or exchanges, instead conveniently blaming a Chinese supplier that had since gone out of business.
In June 2011, Food & Water Watch, a consumer advocacy group, released a shocking expose of imported Chinese food products. “China’s food exports to the U.S. have tripled over the past decade to nearly 4 billion pounds of food in 2010, worth nearly $5 billion. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration prevented over 9,000 unsafe products from entering the country between 2006 and 2010,” according to the report. This is important because many staples of the American diet now come mostly from the PRC, including two-thirds of our apple juice (400 million gallons a year), over 75 percent of our tilapia (288 million pounds in 2010), 50 percent of cod, 20 percent of spinach, 90 percent of vitamin C supplements, and more than 88 million pounds of candy.
It’s not just our human loved ones that are at risk from toxic Chinese products; our little furry friends aren’t safe either. In 2007, 154 brands of pet food with Chinese ingredients were recalled after thousands of cat and dog deaths and illnesses were reported in connection with poisoning from melamine, a chemical used in fertilizer, pools and fire retardants. The same year, the U.S. government held back 20 million American chickens from going to market because PRC-sourced feed contained melamine.
Americans are putting our nation in hock to a communist power for loans so we can buy more stuff at a lower price. In return, we are getting tainted produce, exploding patio tables and killer stuffed animals. Lead toys threaten our kids and poisonous pet food kills our animals. Moreover, there has been no discernible improvement in the safety of Chinese imports in the past decade, showing that Beijing has no interest in cleaning up its toxic trade. In fact, the opposite is the case; more contaminated products are making it into our stores as we buy more Chinese merchandise every year.
Health and safety standards should not be so hard to guarantee, especially in China. Supposedly, the authoritarian government has ironfisted control of the country, which means it should be able to put a lid on the regulatory violations behind the toxic trade. Of course, in reality the communists don’t want to clean up many of their exports because doing so could hurt the bottom line. They will cut any corner - or any throat - to get ahead, and American consumers continue to feed the beast.

Japan refuses to buy ‘toxic’ shrimp from Odisha
Japan refuses to buy ‘toxic’ shrimp from Odisha - Times Of India

Indian paint majors have toxic double standards: NGO
Indian paint majors have toxic double standards: NGO - The Hindu

 

[tranquilium]

lol this is nice chi bot logic. Let's kill it.

You wrote the percentage of Chinese goods in Europe is almost 17%. But 58% of all complaints are because of goods made in China. See the discrepancy? 17 vs 58?

So following your logic, since there is less complains about India product, they must have higher quality isn't it?

Do not expect for high quality goods when you are only willing to pay the price for the bottom of the shelf stuff.

 

[Audio]

So following your logic, since there is less complains about India product, they must have higher quality isn't it?
Do not expect for high quality goods when you are only willing to pay the price for the bottom of the shelf stuff.

I like your reply. Reaks of weakness. First you try to hide behind India and secondly, if we take an example from the picture of the article:

Teddy bear toys are not top of the shelf and yet their eyes fall out creating danger of swallowing for little children that play with them.
All in all, i like your poorly constructed excuses, but they don't hold water, even more so, if we take into account these are not new complaints, as we can see here in an article from 2008:

Toys were the biggest category of merchandise affected, followed by automobiles and electrical appliances.
The EU in January pressed the authorities in Beijing to tighten controls on manufacturers following worldwide recalls last year of millions of toys, most of which originated in China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/business/worldbusiness/17iht-safety.4.12109926.html?_r=0

We have to pay more for toys so that our children don't suffocate? How about you learn to sow properly?

 

[Zero_wing]

Do you even look at your own baboon rant before you accuse others of racism? Don't you have some bananas to pick from trees?


Keep taking your medication on time. Rabies are common amongst baboons.

Wow again from racist chinamen nice call jerk! and for your medication punt i would take it anyway being your prescription its just cheap poorly copied drug not even fit for anything. I would be better off taking dirt then follow your dirt prescription

 

[S10]

Wow again from racist chinamen nice call jerk! and for your medication punt i would take it anyway being your prescription its just cheap poorly copied drug not even fit for anything. I would be better off taking dirt then follow your dirt prescription

With the way you baboons live, you're not that far away from eating dirt.

 

[Zero_wing]

With the way you baboons live, you're not that far away from eating dirt.

blah blah racism blah blah nothing but lies then when the lies run out back to racism so predictable

 

[S10]

blah blah racism blah blah nothing but lies then when the lies run out back to racism so predictable

Is that baboon speak? You are clearly evolving from the use of English vocabulary.