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It is often said that people need not to buy products of their nations since free competition would encourage companies to improve their techniques and consumers have right to buy what they want. However, as far as I’m concerned, we should have preference on our own nation’s merchandises for two reasons: it improve the financial condition of our nation, and lead companies of our country to invest money for bettering their technologies.
First of all, buying products of domestic companies makes government of their countries wealthy. This is because if the companies’ profits are growing up, they should pay more tax. This would make the nation’s monetary condition healthier, and it would be the people of the nation that benefit from the rich government. Contrarily, if we choose merchandises without the regards on which nation made the product, it would negatively influence on our country’s foreign exchange holding. Let a affair of my nation, Korea for example. Since about 2005, large amount of cheap goods which usually made in China have been sold in domestic market. Since they have relatively good quality as well as matchlessly cheap prices, a lot of people have bought them. In the end, this affected my nation’s foreign exchange holding, and have it reduced about 5 percent. Although the trend was reversed by the export of the semiconductor field, since decreased holdings can act as a main reason for a national crisis from like inability of paying back foreign liabilities, that was very worrying.
Also, by purchasing domestic products, company could better their technologies for their merchandises. Some people would say that competition free from preference on the items made in their country is good for improving the quality of the product, since they can not survive if they stay deteriorated. However, to create more sophisticated products, they need sufficient money to research. It is no doubt that the enough money for research is from the robust financial condition of the company. Furthermore, with poor monetary condition, pouring money into development of items could lead them to go into bankrupt. In 2003, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, in Korea conducted a research on what is the reason companies become insolvent. 64 percent of failed companies responded that they should not have put too much money on new field of business or innovative products, not considering their financial state. The second many enterprises said that they should have lay out some employees to maintain their stable state. In order to buy better merchandises from domestic companies, and raise enterprises of our country with stable economic state, we need to have love for domestic products.
To sum up, purchasing items made from domestic companies helps government rich, and its beneficiaries of the wealthy of government would be the citizens of the nation; furthermore, this would be the best way to raise enterprises with stability on finance, and ability to produce good merchandises. Therefore, citizens should prefer domestic products.