I wonder what you would get if you had purchased those same bearings from a dealer? They might not be from China, but I'll bet they won't be made in the US. More and more of the replacement parts, even OEM, are coming from overseas.
It's easy to say you've outlawed all Chinese stuff in the oilfield, but that presumes you have an alternate source. That's getting difficult. For many years I refused to buy shirts made overseas because of the poor quality. Guess what: the last shirt factory in the US closed several years ago, now my shirts come from whoever won the bid.
The choice is yours: Use the Chinese bearings, reuse your old bearings or try to find a source for US made replacements. Good luck on the latter.
The fact of the matter is that China is capable of producing parts just as good as the original. The problem is that you really can't trust their quality control. Unless you have a way of independently verifying that a product is up-to-spec, you're taking it on faith that it's safe to use. No doubt that's what happened with those Chinese chains. Anymore, the best you can do is to buy the Chinese-made parts that an American company has stamped its name on. Hopefully they've done the quality control, if not at least you have someone to sue when the part fails.
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