Still the same problems with unsafe Chinese Imports
Posted by scapozzola on 07/01/2009
As we've reported many times, there are continuing problems with unsafe imports from China. And sicne little has changed, it doesn't surprise us to learn that, as McClatchy News reports, 'Chinese makers of shoddy goods rarely face U.S. sanctions.'
According to McClatchy News:
Chinese manufacturers made more than half of the goods that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled last year, but few of them paid any price for producing defective wares. The long list of faulty products included Chinese-made highchairs whose seat backs failed, steam cleaners that burned their users, bikes whose front-wheel forks broke, saunas that overheated, illuminated exit signs that stopped working when commercial power failed, dune buggies whose seat belts broke on impact and coffee makers that overheated and started fires.Click here to read more.
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