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Don't know what Apple is doing, but it is common for firms to manufacture goods overseas, then put a small finishing touch in the US to get a Made/Assembled in
by Evbn 14y ago
Don't know what Apple is doing, but it is common for firms to manufacture goods overseas, then put a small finishing touch in the US to get a Made/Assembled in USA label for PR or tax purposes.
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- ams6110 14y agoThe article states that "screwdriver" or other non-transformative assembly of foreign components does not qualify. There must be a substantive transformation of the parts to qualify as "assembly"
- rdtsc 14y agoWell ok what is the minimum then? Does epoxy gluing qualify? Plugin in ram module and glue case together? At the same time I kind of doubt this is done much for PR purposes. Can't see really people dropping or picking Apple products in favor of alternatives because of the assembly origin.
- droithomme 14y agoThere's absolutely no doubt that all the components were made overseas, the boards made and populated overseas, and probably the aluminum casing as well though that is conceivably Made in USA. The glass might be made in USA, a lot of Corning was at least recently. It's final assembly, screwing the parts together. Gluing the screen. No screws in the screen, so perhaps Apple imagines that connecting cables and gluing the screen counts as assembly, and who is to say otherwise.
- nnnnni 14y agoSure, that's assembly. The fabrication is done at Foxconn still...
- chimeracoder 14y agoVictoria's Secret used to (still does?) make their products in Honduras and then send the essentially-finished garments to the US, where inmates in private prisons sew on "Made in USA" labels. Because the "Made in USA" labels are sewn on, that counts as the final step in the assembly process, even though literally nothing but the "Made in USA" tag is even made in the USA.
- freehunter 14y agoHaving inmates stitch up designer undergarments seems like a bad idea. Male inmates or female inmates, either way it seems like it could bring up some emotions that prison guards won't be happy with.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoCalifornia inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria's Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace "Made in Honduras" labels on garments with "Made in the USA." http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoners-make-victorias-secret http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoner...
- pash 14y agoAlmost certainly an urban legend. Federal law requires that products labeled as "Made in the USA" be "all or virtually all" made in the United States. The Federal Trade Commission's guidelines [0] make clear that sewing a "Made in the USA" tag on a foreign-made article of clothing would violate that requirement. 0. http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus03-complying-made-usa-standard http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus03-complying-made-usa-s...
- chimeracoder 14y agoThey may have since changed the requirements, or there may be a loophole elsewhere, or people may simply be disregarding the law. As noted below, however, it's pretty simple to find many accounts of this with some simple Googling.
- eungyu 14y agoIf this was a pure PR move, then Apple might have announced and shown the factory, people, facility some time ago.