[kellynla]

If the Chicoms can't poison us all, they're gonna try to kill us on our roads & highways.

How do you say "embargo" in Chinese.

[dynachrome]

Quality control = F-— ‘em in Chinese.

[freekitty]

And guess who will pay the price? The taxpayer.

[jiggyboy]

related thread (different source &c, not a dupe): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856148/posts

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Does anyone know of a site compiling food products imported from China, and by whom? I noticed on a product I buy weekly that it was made by Kraft Global, or something like that, and “distributed” by Kraft. No mention of where it was made .... yikes.

[Western Phil]

“FTS said an unknown number of the tires it sold were made without a safety feature, called a gum strip, which helps bind the belts of a tire to each other, the company said in a filing to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration”

The Chinese probably left this step out to get carbon credits.

[org.whodat]

FTS will file and be out of business in days. Who is the owner?

[pissant]

I buy absolutely nothing from the chicoms. Drives my wife nuts sometimes, but she is catching on.

[hunter112]

With all the recalls, I'm sure the retailers bear a lot of expense. Even if they get reimbursed for the shoddy/dangerous merchandise, they spend a lot of employee time on pulling things from shelves, and sending things back.

It's going to have to be retailers that say, "Can I find an alternative to commie Chinese crap?"

[gridlock]

"FTS, at great expense, investigated this," Lavigne said. The company, which has about a half-dozen employees, doesn't have the money to pay for a recall, he said.

FTS supplied cut rate tires from a crappy Chinese manufacturer. They are responsible for the consequences. They get exactly zero sympathy from me.

They could have supplied tires from a reputable manufacturer, but they went half way around the World to find cheap garbage so they could make a quick buck. Nobody forced them to do business with a cheap Chinese manufacturer.

And then when they sold out to make the quick buck on the Chinese garbage, they purposely looked the other way and pretended that Chinese quality control is reliable. Any child knows this is not true.

FTS deserves whatever hurt they have coming to them, up to and including getting sued into the poorhouse.

[Muleteam1]

>>Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, said an unknown number of the light truck radials it imported since 2002 from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China, could suffer tread separation, a problem that led to the nation's largest tire recall in 2000.<<

Hmmm, did Firestone move to China?

[ears_to_hear]

more here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856148/posts

[Dick Bachert]

(And before someone asks, I will post this until the idiots in government alter this insane and now dangerous UNILATERAL trade policy with China and the fools in the multinationals STOP exporting the production of EVERYTHING to China and bring those jobs home. As you think about that, recall that in ancient times, the Romans and others would catapult disease-riddled corpses over the walls of cities they besieged to sicken and kill the enemy. The Chinese know that history even if we obviously have forgotten it. (Get my drift there?)

On a recent visit to China, a friend spotted this ad in a Beijing newspaper. He sent me the photo with a translation of the ad copy.

BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR AND JOIN CHINA’S NEW MONIED ELITE!

Yes, you can now join the millions of happy and prosperous Chinese citizens taking advantage of the growing numbers of American and Western multinational corporations “outsourcing” their production to the hard-working and industrious people of China. This outsourcing has now spread to their food supplies and ingestible items. Since these firms pay us for gross weight – and this new weight will be pretty gross – and the stupid American government only spot-checks imported items in these categories (they just got lucky on the anti-freeze thing), it has opened an entirely new opportunity which our beloved Chairman is offering to any Chinese citizen willing to do a little of what the foolish Americans call “grunt work.”

Installing one of these state-of-the-art food additive production facilities behind YOUR hovel is as simple as clipping the coupon below and sending it to the address shown. Your production plant will be shipped to you in 4 to 6 weeks. Supplies are limited so don’t fart around. ACT NOW!!

These silly Americans have an expression we have “borrowed” and modified to describe this new and exciting venture: “Don’t give me any s**t.”

Our motto will be “We won’t GIVE you any s**t. But we’ll SELL it to you fools at a really great price.”

AND LOOK FOR A NEW DROP-DEAD MONEY-MAKER COMING SOON. SOYLENT YELLOW PROMISES TO BE BIG

[Segovia]

Damn! I had a set of those tires put on my car last fall in the middle of the first ice storm-—the only thing left in the tire shop that would fit my SUV, and I’ve been saying for the last several months that I’m going to buy another set when these ware out, because they are absolutely the best tires I’ve had in ten years. They still, after 20000 mi still have most of their tread, never spun or skid, and never even required air added! I ware out a lot of tires, (usually at above 70mph) and usually buy Firestones or Michelins. Why would you suppose this is?

[kevinw]

Let’s send all the goods made in China back to China.

[TheMole]

...safety officials have ordered a tiny tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires...

OK, maybe they're not Goodyear, but is half a million tires really a "tiny" operation? And, those are just the ones they have to recall -- I assume that they sold more than that.