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Walmart Should Not Be Permitted To Sale Toys Made In China
Today there are a lot of stories in the news about toys being recalled due to high levels of lead. These toys were made in China. Should Walmart be permitted to sale these toys made in China, knowing that they are made with lead based paint?
 BullDog  12 Jan 2008 14:33
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The last lot were a danger to children.
Therefore I agree.:-) )
 
 keepmindok  29 Oct 2008 11:21
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I agree, because it is Human Rights violations. Child labour.
 
 sylverwyld  23 Oct 2008 18:25
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Agreed! Let's not poison our youth, or anyone else with lead. If we must import, maybe we should use Mexico and give the Mexicans jobs, it would be maybe 4 times more expensive, like for example, a guitar made in China costing 100 dollars would cost 400 dollars if made in Mexico, but if it was made in America, it would cost 1000 dollars. So does Mexico seem like a bad idea?
 
 Mark  30 Apr 2008 19:56
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I think we shouldn't allow ANY store to buy or sell things from China, or at least things that may be Harmful.

In my opinion we shouldn't buy anything form China or other countries unless it is really needed. We should be dependent on ourselves. To make things in the USA we will create new jobs and not worry about poison or lead in things we own or buy.
 
 SunSparkle  23 Feb 2008 03:33
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 Well that's tough because your government has created trade agreements with China, and China is one of Americas largest investors and we owe them a lot of money so we cannot feasibly just close the door on Chinese trade without settling our outstanding debts.
by  openurmind
 08 Mar 2008 20:29
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My suggestion for a better economy is that we don't buy anything from China at all!!! Let's start making our own products here in America, wow what a concept! Personally I have tried my best not to make any purchases lately of products made from China due to the recent hazard. ( I also am concerned about their view on human rights) It is a very difficult thing to do! But if everyone did this, the products would not sell, therefore Walmart or any other marketplace would not buy!!!! We can control this too! Start with yourself and spread the word!
 
 morallaw  01 Feb 2008 20:38
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Walmart Stores Inc. As we all know is an American Public Corporation, is the world’s largest public corporation which runs a chain of departmental stores. As it is a departmental store thus it sells everything that is needed for a household. This also includes toys for children and in toy selling Walmart is considered to be the largest in the United States of America. They hold almost 22% share in the toy market of USA. But recently problems are arising in the toys that are coming form China as the lead content is too much. Walmart should not encourage selling products like this as the much high lead content is not good at all. By selling all such toys Walmart will definitely face depreciation in their market position. Toys from China come with a lead based paint and Walmart should not sell them.
 
 sudipa  30 Jan 2008 20:12
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Walmart should remove all toys and other products from their shelves if there is even the slightest suspicion that these items may put the consumer's health at risk. While I would not advocate a permanent ban on the sale of toys from China, I would certainly suspend the trade of all products that may contain high levels of lead, until this issue has been resolved by the Chinese manufacturers.

Toys are actually not the only products from China that have caused people in Europe and North America much concern. Chinese toothpaste sold in the United States, for example, was recently found to be contaminated with a poison often used in antifreeze products.

Suspending the sale of products from China, however, may have some negative consequences, including an increase in consumer prices. Nevertheless, shoppers would simply have to understand that it is better to pay a little more for a product, but be certain that it is entirely safe and represents no danger to one's family.
 
 mackenzie  16 Jan 2008 14:21
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I don't think we should sell any toys or children's products made in China.
China has a bad human rights record and in some provinces girls are undervalued and often allowed to die as they are regarded as less value then boys.
I think it's totally hypocritical to allow imports from a country that turns a blind eye to that sort of treatment of children.
We should be protesting against goods from China, not encouraging them.
Lead in toys is highly dangerous and the standards of safety are low, another indicator of the low esteem children are held in. Any country which enforces late abortion on women who have more than one child should be shunned and protests made to their government.
Ban all goods from China and don't allow the exploitation of their children or ours for the sake of material gains and profit.
 
 Sophie1  12 Jan 2008 18:47
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Of course it shouldn't be permitted to sell toys from China if it knows that toys have lead in them. Even without a government ban, however, I imagine the prospect of being sued would be enough of a deterrent to Wal-Mart anyway to make it extremely leery of doing the same ever again.

It seems excessive to impose an outright ban on the sale of all toys from China, however, if that's what you have in mind. China's a big country. Is it 1.5 billion people now? That's a lot of potential guilt by association if you judge things in such simplistic terms.
 
 Hidell  12 Jan 2008 18:01
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It isn't just Wal-Mart that sells toys from China, you know. Everyone does. It's China that needs to do something about the lead problem.
 
 sherbert  23 Oct 2008 18:24
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In a capitalist society, of course they should. They may want to be more careful about what they sell, but the fact that it was made in China isn't the problem.
 
 ur_wrong  15 Jul 2008 03:52
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Umm if wal mart didn't seel stuff that wasn't made from china half of wal mart would be gone
 
 Katie92  13 Jun 2008 18:07
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Um, then they would have no toys.
 
 im_trumpet  25 Apr 2008 12:49
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Well we get most of our stuff from china. Plus just don't buy them!! Plus if they didn't, they wouldn't have many toys.
 
 isabella33  01 Apr 2008 16:12
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DON'T BUY THEM AND THEY WILL NOT CARRY THEM, it is simple economics, there is a market for cheap toys (demand) and American wages do not allow for toys (supply) to made as cheaply as they can be in a country like China.

Who would require walmart to stop selling chinese made toys?

This can only be accomplished through government control over private business, and government control of industry does not have a very good track record, at least not in the US
 
 openurmind  08 Mar 2008 20:26
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I think they should only be able o sell toys that are not made from people who are getting paid minimum wage.
 
 cmonnot  17 Feb 2008 08:39
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 who's minimum wage?
by  openurmind
 08 Mar 2008 20:27
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This is all true but i think its okay it they have separate isles marked MADE IN CHINA. As long as parents know what their buying their child and where it came from, i don't see a problem.
 
 spongebob  09 Feb 2008 00:48
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We get cool stuff from china their technology but mostly their led diseases or their nuclear weapons
 
 guyfat  01 Feb 2008 22:27
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