Chinese knife restriction? Closed factories?

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jac_solar

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I asked some ebay sellers about some knives, and one of them said that China has updated their restrictions on knives, and that many factories have closed; and that the only stock they have is what is left in their inventory. Has anyone heard anything about this?
 
I wonder if this is why SanRenMu knives and their ilk have been noticeably higher-priced and more infrequently replenished. Interesting.

Well, hopefully this doesn't harm US companies who have production over there. Interesting choice by their government if that is the case...
 
Well they took the mass stabbing very seriously and even for the first time in history armed their police with handguns.
 
I hope the Chinese stop making knives altogether. It would be all most too good to be true if they did.
 
NetshadeX said:
Well they took the mass stabbing very seriously and even for the first time in history armed their police with handguns.
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I read that too but I've saw plenty of armed cops before the attack. I was in Chengdu, Sichuan a couple of days after the attack and the upscale shopping areas were over run with SWAT teams, snipers, heavily armed cops and army patrols. But a week later most of full auto firepower was gone. The attackers used kitchen knives and I didn't see anyone trying to restrict their sales. As for the knockoff tactical folders Americans buy, they never were common in China.
 
My understanding is that there are tons and tons of knife factories in China. They range from very clean and very high tech facilities where the workers are respected and earn a relatively decent wage down to dirty, disgusting horrible environments with terrible working conditions and basically slave labor.

My guess is they are cracking down on the latter of the two ends of the spectrum. Might explain why they 5 dollar knives are hard to come by but major manufacturer brands are not.
 
jill jackson said:
I hope the Chinese stop making knives altogether. It would be all most too good to be true if they did.
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There are plenty of other places in the world that can make cheap knives etc...

Some already do and have for awhile.....
 
Ankerson said:
There are plenty of other places in the world that can make cheap knives etc...

Some already do and have for awhile.....
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Right but I haven't noticed those places cloning everything that's popular and the USA brands getting them to make entire lines of former USA manufactured only brands.
 
Haven't heard about any knife restrictions from a manufacturing point of view. I will keep my ears (and eyes) open if more information becomes available.

A well placed telephone call with one of the US companies that distribute Chinese knives would certainly answer the question. I don't have access to people like that. But I may ask Spencer (SOG) about this at the Blade show if I go.
 
jill jackson said:
Right but I haven't noticed those places cloning everything that's popular and the USA brands getting them to make entire lines of former USA manufactured only brands.
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You will before long as things change to the next place where labor is dirt cheap.......
 
Scurvy092 said:
My understanding is that there are tons and tons of knife factories in China. They range from very clean and very high tech facilities where the workers are respected and earn a relatively decent wage down to dirty, disgusting horrible environments with terrible working conditions and basically slave labor.

My guess is they are cracking down on the latter of the two ends of the spectrum. Might explain why they 5 dollar knives are hard to come by but major manufacturer brands are not.
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I agree with Scurvy 092 on this, those 5 dollar knives from dirty factories and such are the ones that gives bad reputation for knives made in China. It's also harming some companies because their customers won't buy knives that are "Made in China" just because people think it's bad quality when it probably isn't if it's a well known brand.
 
Freshfish, "quality" is a relative term and very subjective. But Yes, there are large quality differences between products produced in China. Stuff is manufactured to the specifications of the company buying them for distribution. Hence quality control (QA/QC) becomes important in terms of enforcing the specifications of the product that is made in the factory. This also applies to US factories. I view most of the factories in China to be essentially sweat shops much like most factories were in the US prior to about 1900. I wonder about the computer manufacturers since I am expecting delivery of a new computer that the FedEx tracking actually started in China.
 
22-rimfire said:
Freshfish, "quality" is a relative term and very subjective. But Yes, there are large quality differences between products produced in China. Stuff is manufactured to the specifications of the company buying them for distribution. Hence quality control (QA/QC) becomes important in terms of enforcing the specifications of the product that is made in the factory. This also applies to US factories. I view most of the factories in China to be essentially sweat shops much like most factories were in the US prior to about 1900. I wonder about the computer manufacturers since I am expecting delivery of a new computer that the FedEx tracking actually started in China.
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Most of the reason why products are made overseas in the 1st place is because the US factories kept cutting corners more and more each year until the quality fell below tolerance levels so they had to either go under or start manufacturing overseas....

So they exploited the lower income countries... CHEAP Labor...... Until the cost of living and wages go up too high then they close up and move the the next Country and start all over again..... And so on....

They also do it here in the US, build a plant out in the middle of nowhere getting the local Government to give them tax breaks etc.... Then what happens is they hire the locals cheap as they can to do the grunt work while bringing in Management from other places that already work for the Company, the higher paying jobs...... Then once the time comes they have to pony up they shut down, fire all the local workers, transfer the Management to the next area they can exploit the same way and start over.
 
I read that they built too way many factories trying to keep up with the soaring demand, before the economic downturn. They are having to close down a lot of factories now, because we and other industrial countries are not consuming goods like we were, during the Bush years.
 
Things are picking up mwhich50 slowly but surely. You can only supress a tiger so long before it has to eat.
 
mwhich50 said:
I read that they built too way many factories trying to keep up with the soaring demand, before the economic downturn. They are having to close down a lot of factories now, because we and other industrial countries are not consuming goods like we were, during the Bush years.
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China grew too fast and now they are having some major issues.........

They were exploited like many other Countries...
 
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