Can we boycott Chinese products?

Even before this problem of the Scarborough Shoal, I was not really patronizing the products from China. The products are cheap but it is not cost effective. Take for example the ordinary umbrella. In our country this costs Php50 or roughly more than a dollar. The umbrella will last for a few days at the most and if you are not lucky, it just might get destroyed before the end of the day. If you buy one Philippine made Fibrella for about Php450 or $10, the umbrella may last from 2 to 3 years depending on how you take care of the object. Which is more cost effective? Will you consider buying the China soap over our very own Safeguard? Will you buy the make-up made in China or the Philppine products like Ever Bilena or Avon? In this rough economy, we must be wise buyers and being wise does not mean buying a product because it is cheap. Being wise means knowing how to choose something that will provide you the most value from the amount paid.

Boycott their products? It's like saying that what the Chinese did regarding the bananas was right. But...if the products are illegal, then there might be a second thought.

Chinese products do have a major blow on the local economy not only in Philippines but also in my country : India . The problem about Chinese products is that they are of low quality and also cause health hazards . They are also smuggled illegally into our country by which they evade import duties and taxes . This directly affects the countries economy . Also the people buy Chinese goods just because they are cheap . Our countries has factories that too produced the same goods at better quality but at a slightly higher cost . So people don't buy them which slows down the country's economy . So you should ask people to abolish Chinese goods and encourage them to buy items produced within your own country .

I guess it will be hard for us to do that because, as you say, they have really cheap products. If only we really buy our own products instead of patronizing foreign ones (get rid of colonial mentality once and for all) then maybe we could survive as a nation. If only our leaders have the political will to encourage to buy our products, then, it could be good. Whatever happened to the "Filipino first policy" before.

Taiwan survived without the Mainland and even prospered, what more the Filipinos, maybe this is the wake up call all of us need to awaken the spirit of nationality, the same way when we thought that the dictatorship was enough, "enough is enough" and we ended up with a peaceful revolution because Filipinos by nature are peaceful. I think it's what we all are waiting for, the reemergence of of a great nation and a great people. I'm not for boycott, but we should avoid buying if there is a local counterpart, I have always been doing this for a long time, even before the Panatag shoal issue. God bless the Philippines

I think a country can only survive if it is capable of sustaining it's population with it's own products. Once a country becomes dependent on another countries product the economic power of that country shifts to the country it is dependent on. It's like the U.S. and gasoline. We have limited amounts of petroleum in our country, and we are at the mercy of O.P.E.C...

We can only wish. Unfortunatly we outsource so many of our products to China and they are of low quality. To buy American-made would be to spend a lot more . Because of he stupid outsourcing, most of us can't afford to buy local. It pretty much sucks. We give them our jobs and then we buy our products from them and they are sketchy at best. I'd actually like to buy products from my own country if only they were affordable and you didn't have to search so to find them.

Of course you can boycott all you want as it is your constitutional rights to protest against any country, but what's the use of boycott made in China products since you have the freedom of choice to decide for yourself whether you want to buy them or not without having the Chinese forcing you to buy their products, if you're really interested in buying low quality products, at the same time can't afford the premium price of locally produce goods, then boycotting Chinese products is not going to help much at all. I would rather use my time in a much productive way than boycott their products, after all, i only like to buy high quality goods, i seldom purchased Chinese products, i don't want to prevent others from buying them, i respect it is their rights to make up their own purchase decision and exercise their freedom of choice as consumers.

Hello Lady1993, we could have the opportunity to relive the manufacturing firm in the Philippines again, making mobile phones, and other gadgets. i agree that we should buy our own instead. i know because we can make better quality products than they do, probably just jealous because we make more quality than cheap ones

We definitely can survive, and we can do boycott on Chinese products, no doubt. In revenge, China can also boycott our products and inhibit our products shipped to China and sell. That is what happen when you initiate a first boycott. We are not at war, and I don't see the need to do such thing in boycotting. Because it has wide range of impact on other areas too.

I hope we can survive because as you said most cheap products come from China. It will be better if we can have high quality products from other countries but unfortunately we don't often afford the price. For the past weeks, I have been studying about importing goods for online selling and most of the mompreneurs I know said that custom taxes really is high that sometimes it goes as high as high of the shipment price. Basically that is one of the cause of smuggled goods. I do hope that the government can fix the problem with China in a peaceful way.

I guess it will be hard for us to do that because, as you say, they have really cheap products. If only we really buy our own products instead of patronizing foreign ones (get rid of colonial mentality once and for all) then maybe we could survive as a nation. If only our leaders have the political will to encourage to buy our products, then, it could be good. Whatever happened to the "Filipino first policy" before.

Hi lady, As a people, we can't refrain from buying what is available in the market. I, for one, would buy anything that's dependable and cheap, like China products. As long as it is there, people would buy it.

Hello.Product quality is really bad , but the price of Chinese products indeed contrast to low cost many , if you leave the Chinese product , you may be spending life to ten percent!!

If You know for sure many of these products are being illegally imported,then it's supporting your own country's business interests to boycott them..Unfortunately,some people are prepared to overlook how the product entered the country,so long as they can get it cheap and brag about having the latest Gadget..

Yes, it would be a good sign of protest; however, majority of the products coming from America and the rest of the world has one thing in common: Made in China

There's no question that if we boycott china's good that we can always survive but it would certainly hurt our domestic market. I think there's no country in the world that don't consume products coming from china. But as they say, if there's a will there's a way.

for me quality means everything, i don't mind to spend more money to get better quality of product, sometimes product from china is good, but i often find bad quality of them.

The development of each country must go through capital accumclation , capital accumulation in Europe is built on the bloody black traffcking , which is more serious than China`exports , that this harm the lives of every one , The United States , needless to say it , the world`s biggest arms traders , The World War II trafficking in arms and fortunr , which is not an indisputable fact.Therefore ,in contrast , this cost lives and the country of its own capital accumulation , than the more shameful it? In fact ,we should not artificially force to reist the normal circulation of commodities ,to interfere with the normal exchangr of goods . Dear friends , if you have the energy , rngaged in "oppsitiong to thr war, peace-loving", is strictly prohibited to interfere in others sovereignty .The relative significance of the more important!

for me totally no , chinese product are one of the most we need in able for our economy to survive and firstly if we boycott this, the government will find other neighbor countries that can import such a product but in a greater value.. so the economy of our country will experience breakdowns due to its high trading net income.