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Hong Kong even restricts export of baby formula (and smugglers are regularly arrested on the border to mainland).
by germanier 10y ago
Hong Kong even restricts export of baby formula (and smugglers are regularly arrested on the border to mainland).
- eru 10y agoI always wonder why they don't just order more from the factory and sell to the Chinese? (Or raise prices.) Why don't they want to make more money?
- jacalata 10y agoI don't know if the factories are manufacturing enough, or capable of ramping up to do so. It's a huge increase in demand. I heard of similar problems in Australia.
- eru 10y agoSure, but why not just charge more and sell to the highest bidders?
- Scarblac 10y agoBecause it's baby formula, produced here, and rather vital. Government is _not_ going to stand idly by if it disappears from stores because some other country bids more.
- jacalata 10y agoIt's called "civilisation"
- eru 10y agoCivilization is to deny milk powder to people who want to pay for it, just because they are from another side of a border?
- FooBarWidget 10y agoFrom what I know, it is because of export control and regulation. Nutricia, the Dutch milk powder company, cannot easily sell Dutch milk powder to China because import/export regulations don't easily allow them to do so. So they opened a store in China. But because of Chinese food regulations they cannot use the original formula. But consumers distrust the Chinese store because the formula has been altered. So people keep buying "real" Dutch milk powder fron smugglers.