(2) Although a stick is unswallowable, the little fallen out magnets are not. (I can confirm this by personal experience.) (1) Magnetix have small magnets at each end of a plastic stick. this is hearsay) that magnetic sticks-and-balls manufacturer Geomag has sued a competitor Magnetix because allegedly safety problems with Magnetix have damaged the market for magnetic-stick-and-ball toys. Please read books by David Cay Johnston formerly a NYT tax reporter, to find out about how other corporations warp the system to their ends in order to avoid taxes and avoid compliance with health, environment, and safety laws. The Walton Family, owners of Walmart, are not going to be held liable for toxic wastes dumped by a Chinese business which supplied electronics to the stores.ДЄgain, MeToo, what you say makes so much sense but corporations, which end up having the same or more legal rights as people, completely want the opposite. They will ask the people of the US and other 1st world countries to pay for the sins committed in the name of the 1st world businesses.ДЄnd these same 1st world businesses will have skated out of China and have production set up in the Sudan or Somalia by that time. One arguement that I make is that someday the Chinese government will come calling to the UN asking for environment repair funds due to that country's lack of laws or non-compliance with laws that has turned major areas of their country into toxic dumps. Or they hold the prices at a certain level even though the price should have gone up years ago.Д®ssentially companies in the US are importing non-compliance with US health, safety, and environmental laws and companies overseas (say in China) are exporting their under or un-employment. See this Fast Company article about this subject:ДЄnd then these end-retail or final manufacturing companies tend not to lower the prices of goods even when the manufacturing is outsourced offshore. A product that is sold to the retailer at $5,00 today should be sold for $4.50 next year and $4.00 the year after that due to increasing production efficientcies- at least that is what corporations often ply to their suppliers. The game was/is slanted to manufacture items overseas by retailers and larger manufacturers (car companies, etc) which demand cost downs on a product through its contract period. They want to pay $1.90 to make/pack/ship a toy which they sell to the retailer for $5,51 which then is sold for $7.99 to the consumer. These corporations want to have their cake and eat it also. Your arguement makes complete sense and that is why this is opposed by corporations.ДЄnd here is the rub: what you suggest would be considered a 'tariff' and not conductive to 'free trade' which all money making corporatoins and their attending government lobbiests always want. The only big diff remaining is tort: maybe the distributors should be forced to hold some level of liability for any harm fro man Asian product distributed in U.S. resolution, and would protect the environment better than any Koto Protocol. This would greatly close the cost gap, would improve life here in the U.S., would bring a greater degree of humanity to Asian laborers more quickly than any U.N. imported goods only if they were produced under decent labor conditions, and in a relatively environmentally safe way, the Asian-made products would greatly rise in price. Here in the U.S., we have a range of laws regarding labor rights (those pesky laws such as providing a bathroom break) and environmental rights (how can lead paint, and its offal, be harmful? lead is part of nature!). that it is worthwhile to ship an entire SUV at a snail's pace across the Ginormous Ocean (it is not always peaceful, but is always Ginormous, so I suggest we change the name). Regarding making things in the U.S.: think about it: it is so much cheaper to make something in China or Japan than U.S. Those unintended consequences are doing the most damage to the small and midsized US businesses that actually produce toys here in the US. Sadly, due to the poor construction of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), manufacturers will not have the chance to develop additional standards that may help - they will be busy trying to stay ahead of the raft of unintended consequences caused by the act. There already were standards in place, and the products that were recalled were in violation of those standards. I am not sure that the authors of the working paper didn't miss something basic (I am still reading it, so I might not have caught it yet). For all that consumers tell pollsters that they would prefer to buy American, their actual spending habits tell the true story. the costing isn't even close - with the exception of a few months last year when commodity prices went haywire, product sourcing in the US would require significant retail price increases.

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