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What does it mean to be made in the US? Did the components of the components come from China; if so, is that motherboard made in the US because they put the Chi
by meepmorp 6y ago
What does it mean to be made in the US? Did the components of the components come from China; if so, is that motherboard made in the US because they put the Chinese-made electronics together in the US?
And that applies to other areas. China does tons of industrial manufacturing for materials that are subsequent inputs to other products - the chemistry to create your medicines might happen in the US, but it's nearly certain that a big fraction of the reagents used came from someplace in China.
- andromeduck 6y agoThat's only for the binary, but we can always do it by value/cost proportion.
- rascul 6y agoIn the US, "Made in USA" (or the implication) means that "all or virtually all" of the "significant parts and processing that go into the product must be of U.S. origin". More information is available from the FTC web site: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/complying-made-usa-standard https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...