U.S. to Impose Duties on Pipe Imported From China

[strittmatter]

Re: U.S. to Impose Duties on Pipe Imported From China

when you are paid by your government each time you make a pipe, it doesn't matter if they meet specifications.

........which is why the buck only stops with the end user, if then.

I can buy my kid a $9.00 etch-a-sketch and if it leaks out of the package, I can shake my head in that "damn chinese shit" tone, then go exchange it for another or for a GI Joe that hopefully won't leak. We know the drill.

When it comes to actual tensile strengths, burst and collapse pressure limits - installing bad casing in a well will tell on you every time, not to mention the human danger involved. If I bid a well, get the job, then everything blows up when we pressure cement the casing and I have to start all over, that's my fault. Prospective well owner already knew his cost going in. If I "lucked out" on the cement job, but later the customers water has turned reddish brown due to pipe seam leakage, shame on me.

And what one person rejects is another mans bargain. The china pipe keeps coming , and it all ends up somewhere.

[jpatter666]

Re: U.S. to Impose Duties on Pipe Imported From China

........which is why the buck only stops with the end user, if then.

I can buy my kid a $9.00 etch-a-sketch and if it leaks out of the package, I can shake my head in that "damn chinese shit" tone, then go exchange it for another or for a GI Joe that hopefully won't leak. We know the drill.

When it comes to actual tensile strengths, burst and collapse pressure limits - installing bad casing in a well will tell on you every time, not to mention the human danger involved. If I bid a well, get the job, then everything blows up when we pressure cement the casing and I have to start all over, that's my fault. Prospective well owner already knew his cost going in. If I "lucked out" on the cement job, but later the customers water has turned reddish brown due to pipe seam leakage, shame on me.

And what one person rejects is another mans bargain. The china pipe keeps coming , and it all ends up somewhere.

Indeed -- same story with the Chinese drywall in the southern US.