Reply #8: No

[NewJeffCT]

I was not being sarcastic. China does not thing they have a problem with their exports - not long after the first toy scandals broke, the CEO of Mattel went to China and apologized to China because it was a US design flaw in the toys and not a problem with the Chinese factory. Since then, most Chinese have not taken American quality concerns seriously because they think it's just as likely our fault as their fault.

The builders are also idiots for leaving themselves open to lawsuits because of something like this. If they had insisted on good quality drywall and had tough standards for the drywall makers to follow, they would have gotten good quality drywall... but, then they wouldn't have saved a few pennies per square yard on it. Same thing with a lot of the other imports - if the importer had insisted on rigorous standards, they would have gotten good product, but then wouldn't have saved nearly as much money.