Trump's new tariff proposals include a 25% tax on video game consoles

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Avro1958 said:

sethnintendo said:
Just want another country to start building durable goods again. These days most shit from China is cheap and shitty. Sure there are some reliable products but go back 3 or 4 decades they built shit to last. Now we are in a throw away economy. Something breaks go buy another because prob cost just as much fixing than to replace. I'll take Japan they usually make good shit. They can make good cars but apparently not airbags!

I think that has little to do with China and more to do with the business that sell the items.  For example, lets say Company A sells a vacuum that lasts 20 years, they now have to wait 20 years to ever see another sale from that person, so they "redesign" that vacuum to last 10 years, they just doubled there potential earning off that client in half the time. It has very little to do with how China makes the goods, they simply just make them how it's instructed from whoever they have the contract with.

Yea suppose you are right.  More to deal with companies being cheap.  However, I'm sure there are instances that some Chinese firms cut corners or use inferior components to save some money on the bottom line.  Sure it happens everywhere but I believe it is more rampant over there.  Heck they were so bad a few years ago they were killing babies with bad baby formula.