chinese made cars

**jick.cejoco** · May 10th, 2012 08:21 PM

with tensions between the philippines and red china, it just fits if we boycott chinese made cars and other chinese made products. if we can try this for at least one month, they might realize that no man is an island. it is not all about just the "i, me mine" attitude or "china only" attitude.

**foresterx** · May 10th, 2012 09:36 PM

chinese cars are easy to boycott since they're already unreliable as it is, but chinese made products, good luck with that. almost everything is made or manufactured in china.

**uls** · May 10th, 2012 11:37 PM

even if we stop importing everything we currently import from China it will have very little effect on China. the Phils. is a small market. di naman tayo US

it will hurt the Phils. more coz we will have to look for other suppliers which will very likely be more expensive

keep in mind that we don't only import finished goods. local manufacturers import raw materials from China

without China imports prices of everything will go up

and we export to China. if we start a trade war with China they can retaliate

our exporters get hurt naman

**uls** · May 11th, 2012 11:26 AM

Banana exporters lose P174M weekly due to China

DAVAO CITY -- The banana exporting industry has been losing P174 million a week, or a total of P1.44 billion, since March 5 when China started to impose stricter regulations on the shipment of bananas from the Philippines.

In fact, as of Thursday afternoon, there are at least 1,500 container vans still being held for inspection in major ports in China, the Philippine Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) said.

PBGEA president Stephen Antig said this is a result of the stricter quality measures recently imposed by the Chinese government.

He said under the new quality measures, if a single insect/mealy bug is found in a box, the whole container will be rejected and will be sent back to its origin or the Chinese government will dispose them.

Mindanao exporters, including small banana farmers, have been shipping more than 600 40-footer container vans containing a total of 924,000 boxes per week. Each container van has around 1,540 boxes.

Antig said Beijing Customs Inspection and Quarantine has already banned the entry of container vans of 41 exporters from Mindanao into China ports, including Dalian, Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing, and Qingdao, after finding insects in a box of bananas.

China, Antig said, has given Philippine exporters until June 1 to comply with the new stricter requirements, including the improvement of the packing facilities.

In Mindanao, there are around 300 small and medium packing facilities.

"Kailangan sementado na ang floor, flowing ang tubig, ug butangan ug kural (The floor must be cemented. There should be a water supply, and must install a fence)," he said.

Jimmy Estimada, consultant Federation of ARB Banana-based Cooperatives (Fedco), said Thursday that even as they will be given until July, they still cannot comply with the requirements because of financial constraints.

Antig said China's move of not accepting banana produce from the Philippines will greatly affect the small banana farmers, and not so much about the big players of the industry.

Banana is the second largest export product of the Philippines, next to coconut.

PBGEA records showed that 70 percent of the country's banana production is sold to China. Of the 70 percent, 35 percent are the produce of small banana growers.

If China would push through with the ban, around 35,000 workers with more than 100,000 families would be affected, Antig said.

Earlier, Malacañang said that China has been pressuring the Philippines because of its defiance to surrender the Scarborough shoal in the West Philippine Sea.

"We are being bullied," Antig said.

Antig requested representatives from Department of Agriculture, Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Finance, among others, to meet with their counterparts in China and discuss the problem.

He said there is no other country to which they can sell as much bananas as China need, not even Japan.

"Japan is already a mature market," he said. "If the Korean government would reduce the cost of its tariff, maybe they will buy more."

Last year, banana exporters here shipped a total of 158 million boxes to China. (Sun.Star Davao/Sunnex)

**uls** · May 11th, 2012 11:38 AM

trade war

http://news.manilastandardtoday.com/...h-trade-blows/

BEIJING — The month-long standoff between China and the Philippines over a remote South China Sea shoal is snowballing with hints of economic retaliation and sharpening public opinion on both sides—possibly narrowing the chances for a negotiated settlement.

Beijing is suspending some tourism to the Philippines and has ordered tighter inspections on imported Philippine fruit such as bananas, of which China is the single largest buyer.

Putting the squeeze on bananas. China announced it will increase quarantine and the inspection of fruits from the Philippines such as pineapples and bananas as tension between the two countries snowballs toward a possible trade war.

That follows Beijing’s summoning of Manila’s charge d’affairs three times, while retired and serving military officers have called for a limited military operation to shore up China’s credibility on the matter—a potentially explosive move that could trigger the 1951 US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty.

The Philippines has registered its own diplomatic protests, with Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario cautioning foreign governments over what the Philippines perceives as China’s looming threat to freedom of navigation.

The Foreign Affairs Department is preparing to bring the territorial rifts to international arbitration. Without offering any specifics, a department spokesman on Thursday confirmed a “new diplomatic initiative to defuse the tension” over the Scarborough Shoal.

The Philippines is also seeking to shore up its territorial claims with new warships, fighters jets and radars from the United States.

China and the Philippines are among six claimants to the waters and island groups in the South China Sea, which has heavily traveled maritime lanes, rich fishing grounds and a potential wealth of mineral resources.

The latest confrontation between Beijing and Manila began April 10 when the Philippine Navy accused Chinese boats of fishing illegally around Scarborough Shoal, which Manila claims as part of its exclusive economic zone but which Beijing insists has been Chinese for centuries.

Beijing’s moves on tourism and fruit imports are a variation of unacknowledged economic pressure employed in past international disputes.

China International Travel Service, one of the country’s largest, said it was suspending trips from Thursday based on safety considerations.

Ctrip.com, China’s largest online agency, had also suspended trips, an agent said, citing “anti-China sentiments in that country right now.” She said the company acted on its own without official orders.

Beijing Caissa International Travel Service Co. has also halted travel tours to the Philippines and promised to refund tourists that have signed for tours to the country.

The Shanghai Tourism Bureau also ordered a suspension, according to staff with the Yiyou and Guojikuaixian travel agencies in the eastern financial hub.

None of the agents would give their names and calls to China’s national tourism administration rang unanswered Thursday.

The suspensions come as China’s embassy in Manila issued a safety warning to its nationals in the Philippines over protests planned on Saturday. Chinese tourists make up about 9 percent of the total arrivals to the Philippines, according to the Tourism Department.

The official Xinhua news agency quoted the travel agencies as saying they would monitor the situation and take precautions to ensure the safety of the Chinese traveling in the Philippines.

China’s Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying said Tuesday that China was not optimistic about the Scarborough Shoal situation, and was fully prepared to respond to anything the Philippine side did to escalate the dispute.

On Wednesday, China’s General Administration of Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said China will increase quarantine and the inspection of fruits shipped from the Philippines, including pineapples and bananas, which were found to contain insects including the so-called Aonidiella comperei McKenzie, it said.

**uls** · May 11th, 2012 11:39 AM

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**germs** · May 11th, 2012 05:36 PM

madaling sabihin pero it's really hard kung bawat product na bibilhin mo, titignan mo pa kung made in china. karamihan pa naman ng electronics ngayon doon galing.

**ghosthunter** · May 11th, 2012 06:22 PM

nearly everything we use is made from china. From the aircons, ref, tv, radio, lights, phones, tablets, laptops....

**Ventoy** · May 11th, 2012 06:30 PM

Paano na lang lalo scary kong bibili ng China Cars ngayon sa ngyari betwen RP & PR !!! sa Sapre Parts patay na

**renzo_d10** · May 11th, 2012 06:41 PM

Panalo ang China definitely if economic warfare ang usapan, well.. kahit naman talagang bakbakan eh talo pa rin tayo. Mababawasan sila ng sales if we boycott their product, but the numbers wouldn't be so relevant. Unlike kapag sila nag-retaliate, like what they are doing right now.. lakas ng impact niyan saatin.