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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2011 21:37:50 GMT
Most of these items are by no means strategic commodities, so we don't really care where they are made -- we want the cheap prices. And while this list concerns the United States, it is the same for all of the developed countries, so I don't want to imply that it is a specifically American problem. But here are a number of things no longer made in America. |
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Post by lagatta on Mar 30, 2011 23:09:21 GMT
Yes, it is a much more global problem and not limited to America, North America or the USA. I look through my toolboxes and most of the older tools were made in Canada. Some were made in Britain or the US, and a few specialized ones in France or Italy (I may have bought the latter there). The new stuff is all from low-waged countries, mostly Asian, China predominating.
As usual there are a few oddities in this list:
Hershey's: The Hershey Candy company is totally American, but in 2008, it moved some production to Monterey, Mexico.
Ford Motor Company: A percentage of Ford cars are made in Mexico.
I KNOW people in the US use "America" to mean the US, but Mexico and Canada are not only "American" but "North American" as well.
And for many decades, Ford cars (and other motor vehicles) have been produced in Canada, and Windsor Ontario just across the river from Detroit became a sister motor city. It is perfectly normal under the North American Free Trade Agreement that plants should also open in Mexico.
Whatever one thinks of NAFTA/ALENA, under its terms production moving to Mexico is qualitatively different from the other delocalizations mentioned in the text.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2011 16:55:07 GMT
None of these really surprise me at all save maybe the Hershey chocolate. In recent years,there has been a deliberate, strategic effort by some U.S. companies to market their products with a logo attached that says, Made in the USA, clearly to target a market of consumers who veer in the direction of buying products made exclusively here.
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Post by lagatta on Mar 31, 2011 22:11:25 GMT
Unfortunately for the consumers who think they are buying locally, often these claims are rather spurious.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2011 5:05:59 GMT
I don't know the exact rule, but often just putting the finishing touch on an item qualifies it for the 'Made in USA' label. I remember that from when Izod had the Lacoste contract. The shirts were made somewhere else in the world, but sewing the crocodile on the front upon arrival in the US allowed them to be called "American made".
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