(Bloomberg) —
It’s not quite a new Cold War yet. Just the cold shoulder.
Some 40% of Americans said they won’t buy products from China, according to a survey of 1,012 adults conducted May 12-14 by Washington-based FTI Consulting, a business advisory firm. That compares with 22% who say they won’t buy from India, 17% who refuse to purchase from Mexico and 12% who boycott goods from Europe.
The poll also found:55% don’t think China can be trusted to follow through on its trade-deal commitments signed in January to buy more U.S. products 78% percent said they’d be willing to pay more for products if the company that made them moved manufacturing out of China 66% said they favor raising import restrictions over the pursuit of free-trade deals as a better way to boost the U.S. economy
For observers of trade policy, that last point is striking because a large majority in the U.S. have traditionally shunned protectionism. According to Gallup, almost four-fifths of Americans embrace international commerce as an opportunity rather that a threat, a number that’s steadily risen over the past decade. read more
Cold War my ass. We’re the consumers. They don’t by Shit in terms of finished product
We avoid Chinese goods as much as possible. They make crap and then they blame us when it hurts us?
“Some 40% of Americans said they won’t buy products from China”
as they continued shopping in walmart !
not buying products from them is the only way to hurt them.
tariffs imposed on china only make buying their products more expensive for the consumers of those products, the chinese still get paid for them.
we should have stopped consumption of chinese goods when we learned that they were made with slave labor.
i bet the social justice warriors that make such a stink about our past slavery in this country don’t refrain from buying their slave labor made crap.
Mark everything made in China clearly and in the advertisement.
Just a little sticker on the box or label visible from the shelf with the PRC flag on it. They should be proud to do it.
The manufacturers who hate the idea of putting their red flag on their products should probably be arrested in the middle of the night and have their organs harvested as punishment. What’s there to not be proud of?
About time this became a thing. I never thought I’d see the day when finding the words Made in Japan on a product was cause for a minor celebration, but I crossed that bridge several years ago.
COVID-19: So far this is the longest that something made in China has ever lasted!
Early ’90s, when Chuck Harter and For the People was a thing, there was “Made in U.S.A.” scam. Just the stickers were printed in the U.S. and were prominently slapped on all manner of Chinese and Mexican products, suckering people who thought they were buying U.S. goods. Hopefully nothing like that can happen now but count on scammers trying it.
Harter was a bit of a screwball toward the end of his run but he did try to get the first Buy American movement going. Problem was, I had the list and there was next to nothing on it — NAFTA and outsourcing to Asia had already done their damage and the list had no major staple items. Sad, everything you could buy that was still guaranteed U.S. made was nearly useless.
The other problem is China buying up American companies just to be able to hide behind an American name – I point to Smithfield Foods as an example. Either this is prohibited or products get clearly marked (I like the PRC flag idea) with any Chinese involvement which would get around the 49% ownership argument.
PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!
That gets me to thinking that the complicit, Bought & Paid For, Knee-Pad Media outlets like CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, CNN and MSNBC should all have little PRC flag bugs displayed in the lower right of your screen for being Chinese influenced… alone with WHO and the CDC.
TRF — Yes, Smithfield Foods is a prime example. As I was digging up info on them the other day, I read that although the hogs were raised in the U.S., they are slaughtered and sent (frozen) to China, who processes the meat. China then exports them (back to the U.S.) as finished product. The U.S. FDA allows their packaging to state “raised in the U.S.A.”, but nothing about where these products are processed.
AA – An awful, deceitful slight of hand, but the practice is just all in a day’s work to the Chinese, otherwise known as S.O.P.
Do the work, learn their deceptions
Stick it to those Bat Eaters
search ALL the products you buy, IF made in china, regroup & look for a substitute.
As an example, Nathans Famous Hotdogs, chinese owned
Maybe we need our own list right here on IOTW.
I know I would use it for a reference.
I am looking for a chipper/shredder (10 oak trees drop LOTS of branches). When I read the descriptions, I am clued in that it’s from China with the few, but blatant, misuse of English.
When I see that, I go on to the next website. I may not ever know if a machine was fully made in the USA, but I can avoid the ones that I know are made in China.
If Fucking Walmart had the same shitty disposable junk made from another country people would easily buy the alternative.
My wife bought some new cutlery that I really liked and it turned out to be from Vietnam.
I just asked my brother if a gun shop I was looking at was owned by the Xihinese since they were selling guns with ridiculous names and legit brands. (Xihinese clones of Remington, etc.) In stock.
They were.
I’ll wait and buy from my regular guys once they re-stock, and pay a bit more.
I don’t want to support people who will work in concert with the motherland against us.
Turdeau is already bad enough.
@Kcir – EMBARASSED to HAVE BEEN canadian May 18, 2020 at 10:56 am
> I’ll wait and buy from my regular guys once they re-stock, and pay a bit more.
An interesting, high speed spinning, point.
One of the cosmopolitans’ greatest strengths is monopoly. If you can’t afford to travel hours to, maybe, find a “worthier” product — but you, actually, need, that product — you take what you can get. (If you can wait, then you don’t “need” it.) If you can’t afford what you need, in “worthier” supply chains, then you take what you can get.
There has been — and the devastation of “not the plague” is, rapidly, magnifying — a need for lower priced (not necessarily “lowest”) price, virtual supply chains. They must be “online”. Cosmopolitan monopolists will not allow local, white market, options — that undercut their “added value”. “Artisnal”, “boutique”, “look at me, look at me, LOOK AT ME!” “alternatives”? Absolutely. (It convinces the plebes how magnanimous the cosmopolitans are, by charging “so little” for what they need.) While, competing on price, alone, can not — not “does not”, but “can not” — scale.
@ Anonymous, thank you
With specialty products like a rifle, archery, guitar mountain bike, etc. I prefer to feel and inspect what I am buying.
There are many companies that send out the less well assembled products to the on-line purchaser and keep the best examples at the bricks & mortar store for the more particular customer.
I can wait because, as you point out, I don’t need.
In being prepared for the unexpected; Who has only 1 long gun?
2 equals 1, and 1 equals none
I want help people who have been fair with me in the past and are under financial attack because of Turdeau’s latest firearms grab.