China tariffs on the way!!! It's about time!

[SUBMAN1]

I hate Chinese crap anyway. I go out of my way to buy American, or at least from some other country if I can. Chinese garbage always breaks anyway, so it is worth the extra dollar you have to spend to buy from another country.

THis bill better pass!!!

-S

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...16E&refer=home

Four U.S. senators introduced legislation today that would allow American companies to petition for steeper import tariffs to counter the benefit of any undervalued currencies in China or other countries.

[Tchocky]

Posting from myChinese laptop, breathing American air, sitting on my Irish ass.

And today is the same day that the US Treasury "has refused to describe China as a currency manipulator".

Note the qualification, "any" undervalued currencies. This is aimed at China, but it won't hit them. Anyways, legislation isn't the best way to solve this problem, to my mind.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6747859.stm

[Heibges]

Bush made a comment in his speach last week that the Chinese need to become less savers and more spenders. I think it would be more prudent for him to have said Americans need to be better savers, and less spenders.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Heibges

Bush made a comment in his speach last week that the Chinese need to become less savers and more spenders. I think it would be more prudent for him to have said Americans need to be better savers, and less spenders.

Agreed. Americans should also avoid buying Chineese crap and save a little more money instead!

[FIREWALL]

If this passes it's the end of WALMART as we know it. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Heibges]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

If this passes it's the end of WALMART as we know it. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I hope so. Between all our money going to China, and what little we have left going to pay health benefits for Walmart employees, it would be the best possible thing for America. Especially for American small businesses.

Stop global enterprises make slave of Chinese people!

[FIREWALL]

I don't want to see this thread lost. I feel this needs more viewing and discussion.


I'd like to hear from other members what big companys have left and have China make their products to selll back here at cheaper price and quality.

And most important the loss of JOBS.

[FIREWALL]

SUBMAN1 you had an interesting thread here. To bad you didn't mix something about Paris Hilton in there, maybe you would've gotten more response.

It's a sad day when...

Important topics seem to get little notice.

Bull**** seems to draw the most flies.

[Tchocky]

Firewall, the threads only been up for a few hours, and there are a lot of time zones flying around here.

Give it time

[Skybird]

Joint venture the Chinese way:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/...ess/danone.php

Danone is not the first, and will not be the last one being dealt with like this. Once the transfer of technology and knowhow is considered to be sufficient in a given business sector, foreign investors in china face growing risks of being confronted over trivial issues or staged incidents in an attempt to get the foreigners again. Over the past years this has been demonstrated so ver yoften by the Chinese.

If I were a company, at no cosats ever I would invest in china, never, no matter how lucrative the offerings appear at first.

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Firewall, the threads only been up for a few hours, and there are a lot of time zones flying around here.

Give it time

Good point Will give it some time. It was just that the PH thing brought everyone out of the woodwork 24&7 .:p

I will be the first to admit it was a more interesting topic.:p :rotfl:

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

I hate Chinese crap anyway. I go out of my way to buy American, or at least from some other country if I can. Chinese garbage always breaks anyway, so it is worth the extra dollar you have to spend to buy from another country.

THis bill better pass!!!

-S

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...16E&refer=home

That got me thinking. What components within my PC or peripherals that I use are made in China? My initial thoughts were that few would be simply because of the fact that most of the stuff inside my case or that I use with my computer are of good or high quality and have always had good reviews. So here is the list that I have come up with so far:

Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi-AP motherboard - Made in China
Corsair Dominator memory - Assembled in USA
Sharkoon Golfball 120mm case fans - Made in China
Saitek Eclipse II keyboard - Made in China
Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers - Made in China
Logitech MX Revolution mouse - Made in China
Olympus Mju-410 4megapixel digital camera - Made in China
Zalman VF900-Cu VGA cooler - Made in Korea
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU - Made in either Costa Rice, China, Philippines, or USA
Seasonic M12 600w modular PSU - Made in China
XFX Geforce 7900GS - Assembled in China with parts from Taiwan, USA, Korea and oh China again.
Seagate hard drive - haven't found out
Samsung DVD burner - haven't found out yet
Antec P180B case - guessing USA but could be wrong
Broadband modem - Made in China

Everything listed above has performed faultlessly and does what it claims to do. Most of it was made in China. Not all products from China are garbage or crap. Food for thought. :hmm:

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Konovalov

Not all products from China are garbage or crap. Food for thought. :hmm:

Even more important: they are constantly improving their quality.

When thirty years ago the first shipload of Japanese cars, Toyotas, landed in Germany, German carmakers just laughed, saying these cars were crappy and were designed by dwarfs, for dwarfs. And the cars were crappy, and small indeed.

I can assure everybody that today none of them laughs about Japanese cars anymore.

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Even more important: they are constantly improving their quality.

When thirty years ago the first shipload of Japanese cars, Toyotas, landed in Germany, German carmakers just laughed, saying these cars were crappy and were designed by dwarfs, for dwarfs. And the cars were crappy, and small indeed.

I can assure everybody that today none of them laughs about Japanese cars anymore.

Exactly.