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Q: Do you think the rest of the world will ever have trust in 'made in China' products again?

I read quite a damning article about how Made in China products are synonymous with poor quality and safety issues. There have simply been too many serious scandals involving people knowingly cutting corners and putting consumers at risk just to make more money. The melamine baby formula scandal is just one example. It seems like consumer trust is broken but do you think China can ever come back from that reputation? Is there hope that one day it will become a producer of better quality, safe products?

10 years 19 weeks ago in  Health & Safety - China

 
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I totally disagree with that statement .sadMy Dear Wife was made in China and with the exception of a soft ware problem in the Logic program every thing works fine surprise

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Funny.  

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Huawei hardware got quite a good press. IPhone ? Chinese hardware Tongue Yes, practices are shoddy, but there's hope. And here, wife is a fantastic product, just some software glitches you would barely bother ^^

Scandinavian:

just a shame the Huawei hardware is coupled with such tragic software quality (I am thinking phone handsets, network infrastructure is just rip offs of Cisco) 

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From Huawei, I only got first hand experience from their networking gear. Does the job fine for cheap, and documentation was good enough. Setting up things worked fine, basic security options were there. Agree, Cisco did the same stuffs before, Huawei just does the same stuffs for cheaper.

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I trust made-in-China electronics. Not so sure about everything else.

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I remember as a youth that any product labeled "Made in Hong Kong" was the subject of laughter and derision. Some time later, anything "Made in Japan" was referred to as "Jap crap." Since my youth, both brands are, today, reputable. So, who knows? Maybe someday "Made in China" will not have the stigma it has today.

Hmmm... now that I think about it, everything at WalMart back home in Austin is "Made in China" and Americans are clearing the shelves of the stuff.

Except, of course, the baby formula and tires/tyres...

Rin:

We had a lot of 'made in Taiwan' stuff in the UK when I was a kid.

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my laser pointer died the other day,,, student said 'made in china'...  lol  kinda says it all....

Scandinavian:

... the prompt reply should be "yeah, so are you"

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They don't trust them...but they buy 'em still. And as long as people buy them, they'll make them.

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What do you mean, 'again'?

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there are two kinds of "made in China" products. 

 

"made in China for the world" are great

 

"made in China for China" not so great, but luckily the quality is often so poor you only need to be bothered with the crappiness for a short while before replacing it. 

Red_Fox:

This is true. Different ISO standards apply to Chinese exports and the same goods consumed on the domestic market in China.

I have bought Made in China goods in the States and, for the most part, they're fine. They meet the requisite standards for the American market. And it's funny (odd), but the same Chinese goods I buy overseas, I can't find anywhere in my little seaside town of QD.  Similar, but of a lower quality.

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Even on food packaging I have seen here, it says 'not for use in the Australias, only for export to China' Not very encouraging!

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Sadly the world trusts made most cheaply products.  So whether it's good or not is rarely an issue.  With obvious exceptions.

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Hey! My wife and daughter were made in China! sadAlthough they were made in China for America, not for China. My wife also has a faulty logic chip, but that's the result of having her brain rooted and flashed with CCP firmware. I've already reflashed a new ROM, but it takes a while to take affect.

 

ScamdiverIan and Red_Fux are spot on. Stuff made in China for U.S. markets is generally pretty good. Stuff made in China for China is usually of abysmal quality.

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having been associated with manufacturing in a previous life, products made in China for export required constant supervision from outside inspectors. Otherwise the factory would have exported items made not-to-spec. or changed to cheaper (possibly poisonous) materials) Sad but true.

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Sometimes stuff made for China escapes to the real world http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/15/australia-finds-asbestos-in-chinese-built-cars-prompts-recall/

 

 

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