Monday, March 9, 2015

Smuggling Into Vietnam

Buy USA has been an utter failure, and I imagien Buy Vietnam would be as well.  It appears Vietnamese merchants slap "made in Vietnam" tags on Chinese goods, for some unknown reason.
Bui Ngoc Son from the Institute for World Politics and Economics Studies noted that the “buy Vietnamese” campaign would not have much significance if Vietnamese, by accident, still use low-quality Chinese products that bear Vietnamese brand names.
By accident?  We may surmise false labelling is to fool the consumer, but usually consumer could care less.  Is it to complement the folly of official regulation?  Who knows?

There is a foolproof way to not only prove this, but enforce it, and that is with traceability. QR codes referring back to actually producer who affirms the goods one is at that moment viewing are the Real McCoy, as we say in USA.

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