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I'm not so sure about your conclusion of banning exports. Your link at SCMP says "companies must demonstrate to the Chinese customs agency that their products

I'm not so sure about your conclusion of banning exports. Your link at SCMP says "companies must demonstrate to the Chinese customs agency that their products meet the relevant standards of the countries to which there goods are being exported." Isn't this also a good idea to ensure quality?

baybal2 7y ago
> Your link at SCMP says "companies must demonstrate to the Chinese customs agency that their products meet the relevant standards of the countries to which there goods are being exported." > Isn't this also a good idea to ensure quality? May be, but the motivation for such regulation coming out of nowhere, and subsequent closing of reasonable exceptions, is not good at all. It effectively reduced the number of eligible exporters from thousands to single digits per province, mostly completely irrelevant to fighting the epidemic. This was regulation was made with 100% deliberate intent to be impossible to comply in order to shut down exports, without overtly announcing that they do that. As of now, pretty much every medical export out of China is being smuggled, and bribed through the customs.
- DanBC 7y ago
  It's not coming out of nowhere. We've already seen hundreds of thousands of defective face masks, and hundreds of thousands of under-performing tests, being shipped: https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/29/netherlands-recalls-hundreds-of-thousands-of-defective-chinese-face-masks https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/29/netherlands-recalls-hund...
- throw487654 7y ago
  The motivation appears to come from recent news articles about how Chinese tests don’t work, or their respirators are faulty. It turned out it was because non-certified Chinese companies were exporting these products, so the government cracked down.
- simion314 7y ago
  >but the motivation for such regulation coming out of nowhere, I would guess (I have no info and I am just a random dude) that is because the bad press caused by reports of bad tests imported from China.

baybal2 7y ago

> Your link at SCMP says "companies must demonstrate to the Chinese customs agency that their products meet the relevant standards of the countries to which there goods are being exported." > Isn't this also a good idea to ensure quality? May be, but the motivation for such regulation coming out of nowhere, and subsequent closing of reasonable exceptions, is not good at all. It effectively reduced the number of eligible exporters from thousands to single digits per province, mostly completely irrelevant to fighting the epidemic. This was regulation was made with 100% deliberate intent to be impossible to comply in order to shut down exports, without overtly announcing that they do that. As of now, pretty much every medical export out of China is being smuggled, and bribed through the customs.

DanBC 7y ago
It's not coming out of nowhere. We've already seen hundreds of thousands of defective face masks, and hundreds of thousands of under-performing tests, being shipped: https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/29/netherlands-recalls-hundreds-of-thousands-of-defective-chinese-face-masks https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/29/netherlands-recalls-hund...
throw487654 7y ago
The motivation appears to come from recent news articles about how Chinese tests don’t work, or their respirators are faulty. It turned out it was because non-certified Chinese companies were exporting these products, so the government cracked down.
simion314 7y ago
>but the motivation for such regulation coming out of nowhere, I would guess (I have no info and I am just a random dude) that is because the bad press caused by reports of bad tests imported from China.