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| No | 24% | 35 votes | Total: 146 votes | |
| Yes | 76% | 111 votes |
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by Catlin Hogan
When you start restricting trade with one-if not the greatest trade partner of the United States, you raise precedence to trade restrictions with other friendly countries. What...read more
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This is the wrong question. The correct question is "Should the US government revamp the product importation approval system to improve the reliability of Chinese and other imp...read more
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by Felix Ellis
A ban on Chinese manufactured products on the basis of safety issues would have huge ramifications in the World Trade Organization. The attempt to ban goods that are harmful as ...read more
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by Fred C
Restricting trade at the government level is counter-productive, and, unfortunately is something many countries have used against us. Witness Korea, exporting hundreds of thous...read more
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It seems that the Republicans and Democrats along with their followers in the Midwest and other areas of the United States of America have a new country to blame for all of the ...read more
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I am sure the average person in China is not to blame for all the troubles we are having between the United States and their country, but Americans had better wake up to smell t...read more
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NO. Absolutely not. This is a free market economy and if the goods that China sells are substandard in safety or quality the market itself will bear that out. The people who pur...read more
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Does China own the United States of America? Absolutely not. Does China have Power over the US economy? Yes. Should we blame China for the safety issues with their products? ...read more
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Trade restrictions with China - the path to mutually assured economic destruction! The argument for the United States restricting trade with China over safety issues with Chi...read more
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I understand why the idea of trade restrictions seems like a good idea. There are a lot of other complaints about China, from all ends of the political spectrum, even without po...read more
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by Ted Sherman
If the word restrict here means to make sure all the Chinese imports are safe, and to ban their dangerous toys, foods, medications and other products, that's exactly right. If t...read more
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by Saurabh Pal
It is high time the US government did something about the safety issues with Chinese products. Agreed Chinese products are cheap but what value is money if it is going to cost l...read more
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The Coming China Wars There is a book by Peter Navarro of the title "The Coming China Wars: Where They will be Fought." I heard Mr. Navarro speak about the manufacturing meth...read more
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"Made in the United States", where has that label gone? I have been hard pressed to find products that bare that proud marking. I search and search, yet it has become elusive,...read more
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The United States, like all other countries, has a right to restrict what enters from abroad. In fact, on safety issues, it has a duty to limit damage from unsafe products, no ...read more
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by Chabu Bowler
Trade with China (PRC) should not only be restricted, but banned entirely. Just looking at the last year, you can see China's total disregard for safety. U.S. Companies ha...read more
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The U.S. government should restrict trade with China over safety issues with Chinese products. International trade is a powerful tool because it is vital to the economy of e...read more
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by Phil Hill
Our leaders are supposed to do everything they can to ensure the safety of their citizens. We vote them into power on promises of looking after what they believe to be the best ...read more
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Its not just our government that should restrict trade with China our American companies should be working to reinvest in that once famous sign the stopped being used MADE IN AM...read more
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Yes. How many more product recalls will it take to finally sink in? It started with 60 million packages of pet food sold under 150 brand names being recalled. Someone in Chi...read more
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by lori W.
Yes, the U.S. Government should restrict trade with China on a conditional basis. It is time for the government to step up and take the best interests of the citizenry and pl...read more
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