China opposes some countries using product quality as a pretense
to practice trade protectionism, Li Changjiang, director of the
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine, said in Beijing Wednesday.
"(Trade protectionism) not only affects China but also benefits
no other countries," said Li, a delegate to the ongoing 17th
National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Li did not identify these countries, but called on relevant
overseas manufacturers to organize toy imports from China as early
as possible, so that their children could access China-made toys
attractive both in price and quality before Christmas.
China, the world's largest toy manufacturer controlling nearly
60 percent of global toy trade, has come under spotlight amid a
spate of export toy recalls, the recent one by the US toy maker
Mattel which this summer staged three separate recalls of
China-made toys.
(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2007)
