great idea.
dont shop at wal mart, as they carry a ton of China products.
purchase from local stores, local producers.
You shouldnt be buying food from China anyway. You should be buying it from your own bio-region.
American companies take the major profit margin in selling Chinese products. It probably would hurt us more than it would hurt China. Plus, do you really want to move those jobs back to America? Like Textile industry. Would you do it yourself? It is hard work, I’m telling you.
It’s really good idea boycotting made in China in today’s economical environment.
Before you can ask this question (or answer it reasonable instead of a gut reaction such as “but they make EVERYTHING”) you need to try to understand WHY China makes so much of the things we use.
Let’s suppose you own a company that makes, oh, call them “widgets” (If you had college accounting, you’d know all about “widgets”). There are several costs you have to consider: cost of the raw materials, payments on the widget-making machines, overhead (rent, utilities, costs of distribution.)
Then you decide what is a fair “markup” (read that as profit).
Let’s pretend the materials cost 20 cents, the machines 10 cents, overhead is 50 cents. That’s 80 cents, so 20 cents profit isn’t too much, is it?
That makes your sales price $1 cents to the retailer, who tack on another 20 cents (actually they tack on more, but that’s besides the point).. So your price, as the buyer, is $1.20 per widget.
But, WAIT, we forgot the cost of the salaries for the folks who MAKE the widgets.
You figure the salary cost per widget is 30 cents each. That makes your cost go from $1 to $1.30, the retailer adds on 20 % as before, or 26 cents, making the widget cost the buyer $1.56.
Still with me?
Your competitor wants to sell more widgets and decides to lower his price, but he can’t, until he finds out that instead of hiring an American worker at $8.50 an hour (current minimum wage) he can have the item made in China, by employees there who earn $1 an hour!!! That means the cost of the worker is down from 30 cents to about 12 cents per widget, plus 3 cents shipping (widgets are SMALL) to about a total of 15 cents instead of 30 cents..The competitor sells his widget to the retailer for $1.15, who adds 20 per cent and you pay the retail price of only $1.35 instead of $1.56.
The reason: the American worker is paid FAR more than the Chinese worker… Until your company goes out of business due to lack of sales, then the American worker is laid off and goes on unemployment.
OK, now that you understand economics, do you want to tell companies that they have to make stuff here no matter what… resulting in the consumer paying higher prices for the same item? If so, make American companies stop competiting…or tell Americans to take a pay cent cut…oh, can’t do either huh?
NOW YOU UNDERSTAND what’s going on.. not as simple as you thought, eh?
Welcome to the real world.
I’m getting very sick and tired of discovering about everything you touch is made in China. Can’t we make our own things here in the U.S. any more? So many people are out of jobs and much of it is because all the work is done in China and elsewhere overseas. It’s getting ridiculous.
great idea.
dont shop at wal mart, as they carry a ton of China products.
purchase from local stores, local producers.
You shouldnt be buying food from China anyway. You should be buying it from your own bio-region.
American companies take the major profit margin in selling Chinese products. It probably would hurt us more than it would hurt China. Plus, do you really want to move those jobs back to America? Like Textile industry. Would you do it yourself? It is hard work, I’m telling you.
It’s really good idea boycotting made in China in today’s economical environment.
Before you can ask this question (or answer it reasonable instead of a gut reaction such as “but they make EVERYTHING”) you need to try to understand WHY China makes so much of the things we use.
Let’s suppose you own a company that makes, oh, call them “widgets” (If you had college accounting, you’d know all about “widgets”). There are several costs you have to consider: cost of the raw materials, payments on the widget-making machines, overhead (rent, utilities, costs of distribution.)
Then you decide what is a fair “markup” (read that as profit).
Let’s pretend the materials cost 20 cents, the machines 10 cents, overhead is 50 cents. That’s 80 cents, so 20 cents profit isn’t too much, is it?
That makes your sales price $1 cents to the retailer, who tack on another 20 cents (actually they tack on more, but that’s besides the point).. So your price, as the buyer, is $1.20 per widget.
But, WAIT, we forgot the cost of the salaries for the folks who MAKE the widgets.
You figure the salary cost per widget is 30 cents each. That makes your cost go from $1 to $1.30, the retailer adds on 20 % as before, or 26 cents, making the widget cost the buyer $1.56.
Still with me?
Your competitor wants to sell more widgets and decides to lower his price, but he can’t, until he finds out that instead of hiring an American worker at $8.50 an hour (current minimum wage) he can have the item made in China, by employees there who earn $1 an hour!!! That means the cost of the worker is down from 30 cents to about 12 cents per widget, plus 3 cents shipping (widgets are SMALL) to about a total of 15 cents instead of 30 cents..The competitor sells his widget to the retailer for $1.15, who adds 20 per cent and you pay the retail price of only $1.35 instead of $1.56.
The reason: the American worker is paid FAR more than the Chinese worker… Until your company goes out of business due to lack of sales, then the American worker is laid off and goes on unemployment.
OK, now that you understand economics, do you want to tell companies that they have to make stuff here no matter what… resulting in the consumer paying higher prices for the same item? If so, make American companies stop competiting…or tell Americans to take a pay cent cut…oh, can’t do either huh?
NOW YOU UNDERSTAND what’s going on.. not as simple as you thought, eh?
Welcome to the real world.
I’m getting very sick and tired of discovering about everything you touch is made in China. Can’t we make our own things here in the U.S. any more? So many people are out of jobs and much of it is because all the work is done in China and elsewhere overseas. It’s getting ridiculous.
No. Cause you dont know what you buy if its made in China until you scan over what you bought and it says that its made from China.
I want to boycott things made in China, but if we did things would cost more. However, I think strict restrictions should be enforced.
i guess so but what will we have left i mean some of the australian made hats are made in china.
No trade rember Marco Polo , But pehaps we should not buy for the sake of buying ask for less and more quality
if we do we’ll have nothing left. they make everything!
yes but we can’t or we won’t have anything!!!
it’s harsh and sad but it’s true
Oh Yeah!!