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Originally Posted by John1960
ROSEMOUNT, Minn. - What's red, white and blue — and made in China? A move is on in state legislatures to ensure that the flags folks will be flying and buying this Independence Day were made on this fruited plain.
Laws require flags to be born in USA - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Pretty sad stuff. Who cares? Millions of things more important.
I've spent many years in manufacturing. The laws are really strange. We had a warehous set up in McAllen Texas. Our manufacturing plant was in Renosa Mexico. When an order come in for our products, the material was sent over to Renosa. When completed, it was sent back to the warehouse. There it was packaged and went out with a sticker that said, "Made in the USA". Yup, perfectly legal.
The material that we purchased could be made in a foreign country. But, because it was shipped to our warehouse in the US and it left said warehouse completed, we could stamp it "Made in the USA".
I've spent many years in manufacturing. The laws are really strange. We had a warehous set up in McAllen Texas. Our manufacturing plant was in Renosa Mexico. When an order come in for our products, the material was sent over to Renosa. When completed, it was sent back to the warehouse. There it was packaged and went out with a sticker that said, "Made in the USA". Yup, perfectly legal.
The material that we purchased could be made in a foreign country. But, because it was shipped to our warehouse in the US and it left said warehouse completed, we could stamp it "Made in the USA".
So I don't even trust that stamp or tag anymore.
Exactly.
Let's say you buy a Toyota. The high-tech components in that vehicle were all designed and manufactured in Japan, shipped over to the US, combined with low-tech materials from Brazil or Mexico, and assembled somewhere in Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, etc. Is that "Made in America", or not?
It's really irrelevant, just like this flag thing. Like you said, you can manufacture a flag and a flagpole in the Philippines, put them in a box and ship them to America. In America, you can pay someone minimum wage to staple the flag onto the flagpole, and *viola* - made in the U.S.A.
Let's say you buy a Toyota. The high-tech components in that vehicle were all designed and manufactured in Japan, shipped over to the US, combined with low-tech materials from Brazil or Mexico, and assembled somewhere in Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, etc. Is that "Made in America", or not?
It's really irrelevant, just like this flag thing. Like you said, you can manufacture a flag and a flagpole in the Philippines, put them in a box and ship them to America. In America, you can pay someone minimum wage to staple the flag onto the flagpole, and *viola* - made in the U.S.A.
Yup, that's how it works. Pitiful, isn't it?
Here's a side note. Do you know that there is one care and only one that is exclusively made in the USA? Ford, Chevy, Dodge, etc have plants in Canada and Mexico. But the Honda Accord, is the only care that is made, exclusively in the USA.
That is pretty interesting...from personal experience and from what my knowledgeable mechanic tells me Honda and Toyotas are the highest quality cars. Did not know the Accord was "Made in America."
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