A bill to require foreign manufacturers of products imported into the United States to establish registered agents in the United States who are authorized to accept service of process against such manufacturers, and for other purposes.Finally! Apparently congress reads RB and decided to do something about the fact that other countries seem to have no respect for US laws and the welfare of its citizens.
Do you think the price of Chinese-made goods will increase as a result of this?
I've always thought that if China can't test their own products and make sure they conform to the rules, we should do it for them in port. If the paint in the toy that babies put in their mouths contains lead, send it back at the importer's expense. That way the thing actually gets tested, the price gets passed along to the consumer, the importer gets spanked, and China has to deal with a wary consumers of their
Let's see now, I have been bitten by several of the following products:
Heparin, baby formula, plastics that babies and children put in their mouths, children's lunchboxes containing lead, antifreeze-flavored toothpaste, seafood, children's products with lead-based paint (only got fooled a dozen times or more on that one, shame on us!), pet food and baby formula laced with melamine or other compounds to make it seem like they actually had nutritive value, tires, and who knows what else.
Now TW has brought the Chinese-made drywall in the rental I am living in to my attention. Every now and then something someone says resonates with me in an odd way and this did, so I checked into it. My autistic child doesn't need to deal with this on top of his "usual" problems, so we may choose to bug out of here soon depending on what my research and findings indicate. Thanks, TW! :-)
| You are very welcome, gorb. Hopefully if you need to move, some of his usual problems will go away. |
Does anyone out there have anything to add to this?