The Cost of Free Trade: Toxic Chinese Drywall
David Glenn Cox: Since 2006 the US has imported 550 million pounds of drywall. It makes you stop and scratch your head and wonder why. Wallboard is cheap to purchase as a building material; it is easy to work with and easy to finish. I could understand importing products that are expensive, but drywall? Since the beginning there have been complaints of headaches and nosebleeds. Already there are 360 law suits consolidated into ten class action lawsuits involving drywall from China. There are also sixty cases outside of the class action suits that indicate that this just might be the tip of the iceberg….
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The first Chinese drywall lawsuit begins this month; here is some good information: http://www.chinese-drywall-answers.com/. People living with Chinese drywall have suffered eye, respiratory, and sinus problems that may be linked to the gases emitted from defective Chinese drywall that also produce a sulfurous odor and causes metals—air conditioning coils, silverware, jewelry—to corrode. Some 500 million pounds of Chinese drywall was imported into this country since the late 1990s, impacting about 100,000 homes.