Why are so many toys made in China?

Million Bazillion

Marketplace

Kids & Family, News

4.6 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It’s a rainy day, the perfect time to answer a question from one listener who started looking at the bottom of his toys. A lot of them say “Made in China,” but why? Ryan Perez and Bridget Bodnar get some help from some familiar (but legally distinct!) toy friends to find the answer. Turns out there are some pretty interesting reasons why the stuff we buy — not just toys, but clothes and food too — sometimes come from far away places.

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0:00.0	All right, time for a classic rainy day activity.
0:08.8	The globe is spinning and the count of three, wherever your finger lands.
0:13.8	You have to move there and live there for the rest of your life.
0:16.8	Are you ready?
0:17.8	Ready.
0:18.8	One, two, three.
0:19.8	Argentina, the tango, and they have the most beautiful money I've ever seen, like picture
0:25.4	a rainbow.
0:26.4	My finger landed, aw, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, you gotta let me have one more
0:31.6	spin.
0:32.6	Okay, one more spin, but this is the real one.
0:35.7	No takebacks.
0:36.8	No takebacks.
0:37.8	I promise I'll move wherever my finger lands on this globe.
0:41.4	Okay, here goes one, two, three.
0:46.7	India.
0:47.7	Nice.
0:48.7	Never been, but I've always wanted to go.
0:50.0	I got the Indian Ocean smack dab in the middle earth.
0:54.2	Well, that's kind of like India.
0:56.2	No, it isn't.
0:57.2	It's water.
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