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This started in the 60s, when manufacturing started moving to Japan. "Made in Japan" was the mark of garbage (I inherited some of those old Japanese-made tools
by dreamcompiler 3y ago
This started in the 60s, when manufacturing started moving to Japan. "Made in Japan" was the mark of garbage (I inherited some of those old Japanese-made tools from my Dad. I only keep them for nostalgia reasons.)
Then in the 80s Japan got very good at manufacturing. And they got expensive as a result. So cheap manufacturing moved to Taiwan, and "Made in Taiwan" became the mark of garbage.
Now Taiwan has become a very good manufacturer, but it's expensive, so cheap manufacturing moved to China.
And now high-end Japanese brands outsource their manufacturing to...China.
- robk 3y agoIt was largely accelerated by the admission of China to the WTO under Clinton.
- Symbiote 3y agoIn the 1870s, Britain found cheap, low-quality German imports were being mislabelled as British. "Made in Germany" also started as a mark of low quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
- cpursley 3y agoHow Asia Works is a great book and covers a lot of this history.