Does it matter if this pipe comes fron India?

Fence around the Basketball Court at Mt. Pleasant Park, Vancouver

Country-of-Origin identification on fencing around the basketball Court at Mt. Pleasant Park, Vancouver

It must be pretty cheap. This galvanized pipe has come all the way from India to a Basketball Court in Vancouver.

Now, on one hand people may raise questions about the quality of this pipe, especially since it must have been a lot cheaper that Canadian-made pipe. On the other hand, it's just a piece of pipe. What could go wrong? It is holding up a fence, and the whole thing is so grossly overbuilt, who cares if it is 10% weaker than a Canadian pipe?

And so, as long as there are no catastrophic pipe failures, municipalities will continue to specify, purchase, and install materials from developing counties. And it make me wonder just when some story comparing Indian pipe to Chinese drywall will hit the media. The fact that this website, http://www.chinesedrywalladvisors.com, exists might be giving the pipe importers some concerns about whether their business will end up going down the same road.