[RFI] Politics and RFI

[Richard F. DiDonna NN3W]

Some Chinese products are truly crap and other product are quite good in 
quality.  All depends on the  vendor and the product in question.  Some 
Chinese vendors will have multiple quality levels - good, better, best.

In general, I found that companies that have strict foreign partnerships 
typically function at a higher level owing to contractual requirements 
governing quality, reject rates, and component sourcing.  On the other 
hand, a lot of purely domestic-owned companies (many of which are state 
owned) don't give a damn and would rather sell goods at the lowest 
possible price - often at a loss - in order to keep their mills running 
at high capacity utilization rates.

Depending on the industry, acceptance of Chinese product can range from 
zero to 100% acceptance - often a function of the willingness of the 
U.S. customer to take the product.

In one industry I do work in, there is -significant- reluctance to take 
Chinese product owing to perceived quality concerns and a past track 
record where Chinese product has been known to have failed or has not 
been certified to meet specifications.  In one example, a Chinese metals 
company was caught falsifying the mill test reports of its metals - 
which could have led to catastrophic failures had the product in 
question been installed.  In fact, the U.S.-based standards organization 
for this product sector issued a warning notice to all of its industry 
members stating that there were instances where certification reports 
were known to have been falsified and that significant risk was being 
carried in buying Chinese product.

73 Rich NN3W



On 3/19/2018 3:07 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 3/19/2018 11:52 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
>> Wait till we start getting stuff made in "Inja" as the Brits like to 
>> call it.
>
> It's not reasonable to paint all products from any country as 
> uniformly good or bad. Last I heard, Apple products are made in China. 
> Anan started out life in India, and their SDR transceivers are pretty 
> highly regarded. And according to Consumer Reports at the time, there 
> was a decade or so ('60s-70s) when a lot of what came out of 
> Detroit/Flint didn't hold up very well.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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