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The obvious answer is to find a way to open up overseas production to the risk of being sued. Perhaps putting all liability on the importer, distributor, or re

• nickff 2y ago
  > "Perhaps putting all liability on the importer, distributor, or retailer for imported goods." These parties do carry extensive liabilities when there's a product defect or fault, as was the case in the cited case. The issue is that manufacturers usually produce larger volumes, and are thus vulnerable to more of these lawsuits, as well as class-actions. Class-action cases are often extremely and expensive, even when there was no clear fault.
• dragonwriter 2y ago
  > Perhaps putting all liability on the importer, distributor, or retailer for imported goods. Standard product liability law already has joint and several liability for manufacturing defects on all parties in the chain of commerce, so each of the retailer, distributor, importer, and manufacturer already bear full liability.