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"Mr President, I would like Members to take some note of how I voted.
The bottom line is that we must and will protect children. We should be uncompromising on chemicals and pollutants that can in any way affect their functioning and development. Companies must be held to account.
But we cannot stop there. We have to take a serious look at the kind of pressures companies are under. Companies functioning in China face these pressures from the Chinese Government. The rules of the game in China are far different from the rest of the world. If a company is to operate there, it must surrender most of its decision-making and operations procedures to the Government.
China puts incentives into place which control the vertical operations of manufacturing. The tools used by Mattel to produce those 21 million toys are Chinese made and owned. The moulds used to form the plastic and put in the machinery to push out all those toys are owned by China. The reason for this is that the Chinese subsidise companies’ parts if they remain in China, and to break with this system increases their costs by 20%.
So we see that China controls businesses far more than perhaps we realise, and we need to take a lesson from this in toy safety. We must not tolerate this, just as we must not tolerate any of the human rights and environment practices of China any longer."@en1
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