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The crackdown on imports from China continues. CBS' Bob Orr could not resist calling the shrimp trade a "jumbo" market when the Food & Drug Administration imposed its ban. The FDA found that 15% of shrimp imports from China contained outlawed antibiotics added to fish farm water to prevent infection. After recent reports on defective imported tires by ABC's Lisa Stark, poisonous imported toys by ABC's Dan Harris, tainted imported agricultural produce by CBS' Barry Petersen and adulterated imported pet food ingredients by CBS' Nancy Cordes, NBC's Andrea Mitchell offered an overview of the United States' $287bn annual import trade with the People's Republic. "So far this year, an astonishing 60% of all recalled consumer products came from China," she pointed out. Mitchell's sources blamed a combination of lax domestic standards in the PRC itself and the "demand for cheaper goods" from US consumers that prompts Chinese exporters to compromise standards.
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