China boycott means no action figures, cheap trikes
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Instead of presents, Mary Naden gives her teenaged children skateboard lessons or takes them on outings -- an effort, she says, to avoid buying goods made in China.
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Analysis: The company admits that most of its toy recalls were due to its own design flaws, not Chinese manufacturers. Lesson: Mattel needs China as much as China needs Mattel
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Mattel  has only itself to blame  for a huge toy recall that has stoked global alarm about  Chinese-made goods, state media said on Thursday, charging that  a slew of foreign safety scares had exposed a protectionist  agenda.
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For 24 years, toy maker Yoshiritsu has resisted the pull to move to lower-cost China, sticking it out in more costly Japan to meet the exacting demands of its picky customers.
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D'oh! China has banished Homer Simpson, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse from prime time. Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves.
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China prohibits beach sand exports to protect environment    BEIJING, Feb.
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China has protested to the United States over its &quot;unacceptable&quot; blockade of fish and shrimp imports, a government website said on Saturday.
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The U.S. formally accused China on Monday of failing to open the nationÂs economy and crack down on piracy of foreign goods.
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The world's leading toymaker, Mattel Inc, on Tuesday announced a third recall of Chinese-made toys, saying it would take back more than 800,000 units globally that contain "impermissible" levels of lead.
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The U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue is a process, not a negotiation.
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China highlighted Mattel's apology over its recall of huge numbers of toys on Monday to press its claim that Chinese exports are generally safe and foreign politicians and media have unfairly hyped quality scares.
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Leading Chinese makers are to stop making DVD players from 2008 as part of China's plan to replace foreign technology with a new home-grown standard, an industry alliance chief said.
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China, the world&#39;s hottest aviation market for Boeing and Airbus, has apparently decided to freeze new airplane purchases in 2005.
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China will not reassess its crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests, a day after Zhao Ziyang's death.
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Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.
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Analysis: Beijing's extensive economic interest in Burma doesn't provide leverage to change the regime's behavior, but it does give China an incentive to resist sanctions. And Beijing has shown little tolerance for  mass protest on its own soil
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U.S. and Chinese officials agreed on Tuesday to take immediate action to stop the use of lead paint in toys made in China following a spate of recalls that has scared American parents ahead of holiday shopping.