Comments on: Early signs of Export Driven Manufacturers Leaving China

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:53:31 +0000

We have a small business and are considering moving some production away from China. Some factories are very good, you can’t lump them all together. But many of the factories are so difficult to work with, they will do anything to avoid improving the quality, even if you offer to pay more. The excuses are always the same, our other customers don’t complain, maybe it happened in shipping…It seems they would rather lose business than work hard. This isn’t mentioned often, but often it’s just laziness on their part. I’m not a China basher, I have a lot of friends in China and that is what they tell me too. Also they think that you have to buy from them no matter what because their price is lower than in other countries.

I think the Chinese government policy of moving away from low-end manufacturing is a good one as it will knock a lot of the less ethical factories out of business and improve the country’s reputation.

By: Elaine Thome

Elaine Thome — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:17:57 +0000

I am so sick of the lack of quality in nearly all the products from China that I’ve, essentially, stopped buying everything if I don’t really NEED it. You spend money on this stuff and it is in the garbage can not long after. Not only is this a waste of MY money, but it is a waste of resources. The way to making things with a “green” attitude is to make things that last many years and WEAR out instead of them just failing because they are made so cheap.

Also, what VALUE have shareholders gotten from our manufacturing moving to countries with lower wage rates? If companies are making more profit, why aren’t we seeing this in increased share price or dividends? I think the profits must be going to the company bigwigs at our expense. It’s so stupid to enrich these other countries by sending our money over there instead of keeping it here. It makes THEM rich and turns the USA into a third world nation.