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If 4 out of 5 parts were made in the country, and the bike was assembled in the country, it does not bother me to claim the bike is made in the USA. For a compl
by karaterobot 3y ago
If 4 out of 5 parts were made in the country, and the bike was assembled in the country, it does not bother me to claim the bike is made in the USA. For a complex assembly with hundreds or thousand of pieces, there's some wiggle room, and 70-80% is close enough that I wouldn't feel lied to.
On the other hand, if I bought a wooden spoon, or even a saucepan, and it said "Made in USA" on it, and I found out that it wasn't 100% made in the USA from materials produced here, I'd feel differently because those are relatively simple products (compared to a motorcycle) where every piece much more crucially defines the whole.
I don't know what the cutoff is, though: a product doesn't have to be 100% USA-made components, but 51% would be too little. Ballpark, 70%+ would be the over-under where I'd start to feel misled.
- rootsudo 3y agoDoes it count as made in USA if said HD motorcycle has software, made, in, India? How about designers not in USA?
- jjtheblunt 3y agoThat reminds me of Apple's "Designed in California" on some products. (My 2016 Mac Pro also said Made in the USA, as it was in Texas.)
- karaterobot 3y agoOn a motorcycle? Not to me. Maybe to others. I would interpret the "made" in "made in USA" as referring specifically to the manufacturing of the physical bike.