Foreign Trade Policy

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

The main problem is China not fairly pegging their currency, along with them subsudising their manufacturers. They sell some of their products less than people here can source the raw materials. It's not even close to a fair battle field. Unions are far below our political landscape that encourages these unfair rules with retail lobbyist spending millions to keep things that way.

We made Columbia a free trade partner to help combat the drugs they import. How's that going? It's never ending. And as retailers push these off shore manufacturers to move into new, lower labor cost countries, they get the rules changed to suite them. We've turned a blind eye to all of this and people here lose decent jobs ony to work at McDonalds or Walmart.

Spydee...Why isn't anyone leveling criticism at Target, Walmart, Toy r Us or ANY other retailer? You know how many American jobs were lost in the last 10 years because retailers have all gone direct to China factories and sourced directly by passing the American company/distributor. I understand the criticism of China et al, but the real problem lies a lot closer to home. How can you blame China when American retailers...good ole "Made in America" Walmart being the biggest, knock on your door and say here....make me a million of these...and oh yeah, that American vendor who used to be your partner is gone. You deal directly with us now.