About Why Buy from China
Who We Are
This site has one main editor and researcher. He’s a practicing lawyer with 30 years of government experience and an undergraduate degree in economics. Because he still works in government, he writes under a pen name — but his background and methods are real.
His work has always involved investigations, regulation and enforcement. That’s not a coincidence. It’s why he started this site.
How We Verify
Most sites like this one just repeat what a brand says about itself. We don’t.
Before anything gets listed here, we check:
- What the manufacturer actually says about where their products are made — not just what their ads imply
- FTC Made in USA standards — the FTC requires products to be “all or virtually all” made in the US to use that label; we use that same bar even when brands don’t
- Product labels — country of origin is legally required on many products, and it doesn’t always match what the brand says publicly
- Third-party sourcing reports, which sometimes tell a different story than the company does
If a brand makes some products in the US and others in China, we say so. You’ll see this on our Trico wipers page, where we name the specific lines that qualify — and the ones that don’t.
We update listings when things change. Manufacturing moves around. A brand that was Made in the USA in 2024 may not be anymore.
See what you can find out yourself by checking out our page on How to Tell Where It’s Made When You’re Shopping Online.
Our Mission
Where something is made matters. It affects jobs, wages, environmental standards, quality – and tariffs you might have to pay. When one country makes more than 30% of the world’s goods, consumers lose the ability to make real choices — unless someone does the homework first.
That’s what we do here.
We prefer Made in USA products (made by our neighbors with 0% tariffs), but we also recommend things made in Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and other countries with strong labor and environmental track records — especially when there’s no American-made option.
One more thing: we have no issue with Chinese workers. They deserve fair pay and safe conditions like anyone else. Our concern is with supply chain concentration, the trade decisions that created it and tariffs.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site is part of the Amazon Associates program and uses other affiliate links. If you buy something through one of our links, we may earn a small commission — at no cost to you.
Affiliate deals don’t affect what we recommend. We check the sourcing first. If a product doesn’t meet our standards, it doesn’t get listed, no matter what the commission might be.
Contact
Know something about a brand’s sourcing that we’ve missed? Seen something on this site that looks wrong? We want to hear it:
Why Buy From China is independently owned and operated. It has no affiliation with any federal, state or local government agency. Last updated April 2026.