Trying to disguise product made in China

[RDY4WAR]

FWIW: A lot of items that are marked as “made in Vietnam” are actually made in China. They’re using other countries as cover.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/made-vietnam-or-backdoor-chinese-exports

SmarterEveryDay (Youtube) made a good video about the struggle of making something entirely US based. It was a grill scrubber and took years of struggling to make it solely based in the US. At one point, he ordered chainmail from India to test out. It arrived on a pallet from India but each individual box of chainmail had Chinese writing.

 

[Pablo]

SmarterEveryDay (Youtube) made a good video about the struggle of making something entirely US based. It was a grill scrubber and took years of struggling to make it solely based in the US. At one point, he ordered chainmail from India to test out. It arrived on a pallet from India but each individual box of chainmail had Chinese writing.

There is a thread here on this

 

[Jetronic]

If they were required to put these labels on prescription, non prescription meds and supplements people would lose their minds when they find out how many of there meds are made in china and india.

and that they cost about 1% of what is charged in the USA.

 

[Jetronic]

SmarterEveryDay (Youtube) made a good video about the struggle of making something entirely US based. It was a grill scrubber and took years of struggling to make it solely based in the US. At one point, he ordered chainmail from India to test out. It arrived on a pallet from India but each individual box of chainmail had Chinese writing.

But is that China doing this, or the reseller in India? I'd be inclined to think the issue started in India.

 

[4WD]

Printing an American flag on the box with a big slogan "Proudly Engineered in USA" with tiny lettering "made in China" would be an example of trying to disguise where it was made. I get it, I get it, its a coffee cup. It was engineered here.... A hundred years ago.

iPhone does both and not hiding it …

 

[BC1]

Cost cutting. Less ink for prc vs china.

 

[97prizm]

Wife bought a plate and says made in P.R.C. Looks like it is made in China. Guess with the spotlight on China they are trying to hide where it’s made.View attachment 288597

The sugar industry tried pulling this garbage a few years ago. They tried to get the FDA to allow them to list high fructose corn syrup as "Corn sugar". This way it didn't sound so bad.

 

[Vil_Riker]

LOL

Wife bought a plate and says made in P.R.C. Looks like it is made in China. Guess with the spotlight on China they are trying to hide where it’s made.View attachment 288597

LOL

 

[Pablo]

Wife bought a harness for the dorg.

What I find comical about import products are some of the names.

This harness has the brand name "RABBITGOO" proudly emblazoned

https://rabbitgoo.shop/

I guess they do make harnesses for rabbits. And eye wipes for dogs (goo). And window films.

 

[goblin]

Geographically constrained ignorance of local specifics overseas is not proof of cheating on their side.

PRC could very well be used if the product is also meant for a market where Taiwan is selling products under Made in ROC. Or any place where "China" is a more ambiguous concept than in the US. If anything, it's more an indication that the product is not exclusively meant for the US market than anything else.

I'm also a bit puzzled about the comment on the AC cans. Empty cans get shipped, then filled in the US. What would be so surprising ? A US mineral water filled in the US into overseas-made bottles is still US mineral water.

The same is widely done with bicycles in Europe. Could be done in the US as well. Frames welded in China are shipped by boat in bulk and arrive all rusty. They are then cleaned and painted into Euro assembled bicycles.

 

[mk378]

I've seen "P. R. China" a couple of times. Or "CN" which is a system of two-letter codes common in computing but I don't know if that system meets trade rules.

 

[skyactiv]

Geographically constrained ignorance of local specifics overseas is not proof of cheating on their side.

PRC could very well be used if the product is also meant for a market where Taiwan is selling products under Made in ROC. Or any place where "China" is a more ambiguous concept than in the US. If anything, it's more an indication that the product is not exclusively meant for the US market than anything else.

I'm also a bit puzzled about the comment on the AC cans. Empty cans get shipped, then filled in the US. What would be so surprising ? A US mineral water filled in the US into overseas-made bottles is still US mineral water.

The same is widely done with bicycles in Europe. Could be done in the US as well. Frames welded in China are shipped by boat in bulk and arrive all rusty. They are then cleaned and painted into Euro assembled bicycles.

Aren’t most adult bikes aluminum now, even cheap ones?

 

[mk378]

Empty cans get shipped, then filled in the US.

... with refrigerant that was also made in China and shipped over separately. This seems a deceptive practice.

 

[goblin]

Possibly. Info is for Decathlon bottom of the barrel bikes in Europe years ago.

Decathlon being mostly a decent quality brand, their cheapest bikes were still finished in France rather than direct from China.

The documentary was mostly about how much they were saving by shipping the frames in bulk with minimal protection from the elements on a several months boat trip, vs shipping China-built finished bikes that were cheap but required further packaging and transportation in a more protected area on the ship, thus making them eventually just as expensive.

 

[Vil_Riker]

... with refrigerant that was also made in China and shipped over separately. This seems a deceptive practice.

Where do you propose they find empty cans and chemicals?

 

[uc50ic4more]

We've had a phenomenon here in Canada over the last several months we call "maplewashing" where a product in a store is labeled - conspicuously, as you'd understand if you follow Canadian news - "PRODUCT OF CANADA"; and examining the packaging reveals it is comically obvious that it is not: "Made in USA" or "Product of Chile" or some other thing. I know there are nuances delineating "Made in..." vs "Product of..." and whatever other nomenclature describes exactly what is from where; but some of this garbage is clearly just trying to slap some bad-faith lipstick on a pig.

I remember when I ran a farmers market in my city. We accepted pretty much anyone who had "local" food products and thought that was a simple enough policy. Until we had someone apply to appear whose locally-made jams were made from California berries. These days that market features "local" coffee and "local" olive oil manufactured under the same circumstances.

 

[Allaned]

Wife bought a plate and says made in P.R.C. Looks like it is made in China. Guess with the spotlight on China they are trying to hide where it’s made.

And you would be upset if it said U.S.A? Countries get abbreviations all the time.

 

[4WD]

Been solving problems all day - big N small - short N tall - ready to help.
What problem are we up against here ?

 

[goblin]

...What problem are we up against here ?

A global conspiracy by a dark kabal, fortunately caught by a sharp mind, as is usually the case with most facepalm life moments...

 

[4WD]

A global conspiracy by a dark kabal, fortunately caught by a sharp mind, as is usually the case with most facepalm life moments...

Copy. On it.
Will be watching for phishing attacks printed on cheap China!