No, you are categorically wrong There are no Chinese hardware stores in the US. Anything sourced in China is specced, purchased, q/a-ed, and sold in US stores such as Walmart and Lowes. The party responsible is the retail company who specs, buys, inspects, and sells the product.
Which, by the way, in this case was not only of undetermined origin but actually fit the description for 12 gage wire, which our intrepid poster didn't bother to check.
This is true of any product sold in a store.
As is also true where the product is from a country known as the most expensive. Ask the people whose children were sickened by Made in USA Enfamil. There are shit products made in the US (two space shuttles out of five disappeared in fiery balls of scrap metal due to shit o-rings and ridiculous foam insulation), there are shit products made in the UK, there are shit products made in India, there are shit products made in Germany. Flinging the jingoist crap when you have absolutely no idea whether there is even a problem or not is mentally retarded and dishonest. In this case, for example, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the wire, which probably didn't even come from China.