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发表于 2012-10-27 18:38
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来自： 广东省湛江市 电信
Disease issues aside, how is the import of bare root roses from China any different than imports from Germany or England or Canada? For that matter, how is it different from me ordering roses from Texas or California?
$0.30 each, big box stores only double the price. Probable get free shipping to the port.
It's already quite difficult for American producers to remain in business with all the other issues they face. Introduce bare roots produced at half, or less, the cost of domestic product and you have the same situation as we had with American cut roses and Columbian imports killing the American cut rose industry.
The Chinese are "different". Their "ethics" are quite different. From a long time, very good friend who imported from and manufactured in China for many years, to our sensibilities, they are rather "child like", in that you have to clearly specify precisely what is acceptable and what is not.
Mattel got into so many difficulties with Chinese produced toys because they didn't realize they had to specify exactly what materials had to be used to produce their products. If lead-free paint must be used, that must be specified. To their thinking, if you supply expensive lead-free paint, they can make it cheaper (a good thing) by selling the expensive paint and substituting lower priced leaded paint. They have done well by producing your product "better", in that they made it cost less. What is accepted as standard business practice here is completely foreign (no pun intended) to many Chinese manufacturers.
If you own and operate a factory there, you have to physically prevent it from being operated after hours to produce unauthorized copies of your products for sale on the black market. My friend produced limited production, signed and numbered porcelains for export. He had to have the molds physically removed from the plant every night to prevent unauthorized runs over night. One porcelain with a limited run was produced by the thousands after hours. Every piece had exactly the same production number so it was easier to determine which were "counterfeit". After a production run, molds had to be physically destroyed, even machinery destroyed, to prevent unauthorized use and counterfeit production.
If we have the issues we encounter producing virus clean stock here, imagine what may possibly arrive from that type of production. We can't produce true-to-name, cheap bare roots here. What hope is there of it from Chinese fields? What new pathogens and pests await short-cuts from Chinese producers? We already have to police against imported diseases and pests, plus pesticides and fungicides illegal for US use in imported produce from other countries. Many of those are closer to US "practices" than the Chinese. Theirs is a completely different universe with regards to chemicals and practices. Personally, it's more than a little scary. In the immortal words of Kelly Bundy, "the mind wobbles!"
Thank heavens they will probably cost many thousands of dollars for inspection and be required to be grown in quarantine for two years. Who knows? With our current restriction of nothing greater than 10 mm allowed in, perhaps they will extend that to the Chinese producers which should eliminate anything from entering from China to US soil. |
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发表于 2012-10-27 18:19
