Country of origin on electrical goods

eth0

Many electrical products no longer have their product of origin on them. Almost 100% of the time that means it comes out of China - a country I try and avoid buying stuff from

Are companies obliged to put this information on the product/packaging at all? Why is it so often missing these days? With online shopping and places like Argos its often impossible to find out

whippet

eth0 wrote: »

China - a country I try and avoid buying stuff from

to avoid buying stuff with no origin from china you might have to resort to living in a cave and living off the land in you immediate vicinity.

The computer you posted your message from probably has about 70-90% of it's components made in china. The garlic in you eat probably came from china ..... while I understand that you more than likely have personal reservation about many political issues in china it is near impossible to ignore their goods and services.

Actually, shortly the money that we as a nation will use to pay for our day to day state expenditure may well be from china in the forms of loans between the EU and China.

eth0

whippet wrote: »

to avoid buying stuff with no origin from china you might have to resort to living in a cave and living off the land in you immediate vicinity.

The computer you posted your message from probably has about 70-90% of it's components made in china. The garlic in you eat probably came from china ..... while I understand that you more than likely have personal reservation about many political issues in china it is near impossible to ignore their goods and services.

Actually, shortly the money that we as a nation will use to pay for our day to day state expenditure may well be from china in the forms of loans between the EU and China.

Thats no reason to turn a blind eye and march on to a point where they own us completely. There are still electrical goods that aren't made in China and cheap Eastern European countries still manufacture a lot of goods. An awful lot of stuff also comes out of Taiwan which isn't as bad as mainland China

The US have dug themselves into a deep hole borrowing from the Chinese just so they can continue buying their outsourced goods. You'd hope our fearless EU leaders would know better than to go down that road

whippet

eth0 wrote: »

You'd hope our fearless EU leaders would know better than to go down that road

they may not have a choice !!!!!

eth0

whippet wrote: »

they may not have a choice !!!!!

as far as I remember yer man Hu Jintao already said no to any EU clamour for Chinese money when he was over a few months ago.

ejmaztec

We can also thank all of the greedy western multi-nationals for transferring manufacturing to China to make more money due to the low labour costs. The Chinese have got us by the balls.

Everything's been handed to them on a plate, and they're buying up western-based businesses by the wagon-load, because they're the only ones on the planet with huge wads of cash.:(

eth0

ejmaztec wrote: »

We can also thank all of the greedy western multi-nationals for transferring manufacturing to China to make more money due to the low labour costs. The Chinese have got us by the balls.

Everything's been handed to them on a plate, and they're buying up western-based businesses by the wagon-load, because they're the only ones on the planet with huge wads of cash.:(

I think they're not even bothering with the western companies anymore, they just say feck it lets roll our own and sell products to the west. Buying our companies would involve them giving us money for them, they don't like that.

The stuff they sell they also make sure breaks after 2 or 3 years

UrbanSea

Plenty of electrical goods such as Philips are designed in their parent company e.g The Netherlands in their case and then manufactured in China

eth0

UrbanSea wrote: »

Plenty of electrical goods such as Philips are designed in their parent company e.g The Netherlands in their case and then manufactured in China

For now but doing thigns that way involves a lot of cost, so now Chinese companies sell inferior stuff for cheaper. Not that the parent companies are perfect either, after all they got us into this whole mess. Apple tried to make their Made in China products more appealing by putting Designed in California above them but still a substantial amount of money from each product goes to China and once developed there isn't much designing left to be done besides minor upgrades

whippet

eth0 wrote: »

so now Chinese companies sell inferior stuff for cheaper.

that is a massive generalization if I ever saw one !!!!

there are literally millions of manufacturing plants in china and I am sure they have their fair share of dodgy quality while plenty of facilities producing high quality.

Del2005

eth0 wrote: »

For now but doing thigns that way involves a lot of cost, so now Chinese companies sell inferior stuff for cheaper.

If you buy something off the internet that looks too good to be true it more then likely is some cheap Chinese copy of a product. But the genuine product will more then likely also be made there. Wasn't there rumours that the Chinese had 2 construction crews for every foreign owned factory that was being built, one for the company and the other for.......

The Eastern European companies are mainly just assembling Chinese made products to avoid import tariffs. Look at Dell they moved their assembly line from Ireland to Poland for cheaper workers, but they don't manufacture anything in either country. So is a Dell computer made in Poland or China?

Also the vast majority of "the green industry" is made from Chinese materials.