The bosses Hessler meets are typical proponents of the local development model: "low investment, low-quality products, low profit margins.

So, low-quality product is low-quality?

While Saint-Gobain continued to dominate the luxury, high-quality mirror and glass markets, its newly created competitors focused their attention on making medium and low-quality products.

This certification is considered important by producers and consumers alike, in order to avoid confusion with low-quality mass-produced ersatz products.

Drawing too much attention to their reconditioned stock, he added, "makes it sounds like they have low-quality products."

"More than 800 repairmen from over 70 factories came to Beijing to repair or replace their low-quality products," the reporter, Si Maxin, wrote.

He has asked me to take careful note of the risks to ensure the elimination of low-quality products when this framework legislation goes through the system.

These should include an increase in the number of checks carried out on imported goods, which would also prevent any influx of low-quality products into the EU.

Pepsi-Cola, which has bottled soft drinks here since Soviet times, now has to defend itself against the perception that it is somehow a local, with a low-quality product.

In Japan, the high-quality companies were hooked to the war machine while the low-quality products were exported and sold on price.