Snap on toolboxes: Where are they made?

[ron in sc]

One of the Snap on toolboxes I'm looking at does not say it is made in the USA. The sticker say it is Assembled in USA. This is a large very expensive unit.

Are Snap on toolboxes now made overseas? Or Mexico?

 

[krusty the clown]

snap on tool boxes are either made in algona iowa or canada as far as i know.

 

[dxdexter]

One of the Snap on toolboxes I'm looking at does not say it is made in the USA. The sticker say it is Assembled in USA. This is a large very expensive unit.

Are Snap on toolboxes now made overseas? Or Mexico?

KRA's are made in Canada and assembled in the USA. They use to be totally made in Canada, but that changed with the decline of the US dollar.

 

[Deafautotech]

It is KRA... the KRL are made in USA.. i like KRA but KRL are much better for my needs to hold my heavy tools and few thousands of pounds (KRL1003 are designed to hold 6,000 lbs...)

 

[Merkava_4]

If the box uses one single imported screw, they have to use the word "assembled." A perfect example is my wormdrive SkilSaw that's completely made in the USA but has to say "assembled" because the blade is from China.

 

[Abodyracer]

If the box uses one single imported screw, they have to use the word "assembled." .

Same thing if it says "Made With Global Componets"

 

[SpiderGearsMan]

under nafta --we are one big trading partner

 

[dxdexter]

If the box uses one single imported screw, they have to use the word "assembled." A perfect example is my wormdrive SkilSaw that's completely made in the USA but has to say "assembled" because the blade is from China.

I'm not sure how it works in the USA, but my understanding of how it works here in Canada is if the value of the material or labor performed or manufactured in Canada is greater than 50% of the final product then they can say "Made in Canada".

So if a bottle of Chinese vitamins sells for $2.00 and they are packaged in a Canadian bottle worth $1.01, then the product is "Made in Canada".

I would think anything that is labeled "Made in the USA with Global Components" or "Assembled in the USA" has the majority, if not all of the material components made outside the USA and then put together in the US.

 

[MAD]

If the box uses one single imported screw, they have to use the word "assembled." A perfect example is my wormdrive SkilSaw that's completely made in the USA but has to say "assembled" because the blade is from China.

This is just not true. (See the quote from the FTC standard below) The blade may be important enough to be considered significant content but a single screw certainly would not be. I suspect there may be even more foreign content in that saw.

What factors does the Commission consider to determine
whether a product is “all or virtually all” made in the
U.S.?
The product’s final assembly or processing must take place in
the U.S. The Commission then considers other factors,
including how much of the product’s total manufacturing
costs can be assigned to U.S. parts and processing, and how
far removed any foreign content is from the finished product.
In some instances, only a small portion of the total manufacturing
costs are attributable to foreign processing, but that
processing represents a significant amount of the product’s
overall processing. The same could be true for some foreign
parts. In these cases, the foreign content (processing or parts)
is more than negligible, and, as a result, unqualified claims
are inappropriate.
Example: A company produces propane barbecue
grills at a plant in Nevada. The product’s major
components include the gas valve, burner and
aluminum housing, each of which is made in the
U.S. The grill’s knobs and tubing are imported
from Mexico. An unqualified Made in USA claim
is not likely to be deceptive because the knobs and
tubing make up a negligible portion of the product’s
total manufacturing costs and are insignificant
parts of the final product.

Here is a link to the entire FTC document:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/madeusa.pdf

 

[Uncle Buck]

This is just not true. (See the quote from the FTC standard below) The blade may be important enough to be considered significant content but a single screw certainly would not be. I suspect there may be even more foreign content in that saw.

I strongly agree with MAD on this.

 

[nyjets53]

I suspect there may be even more foreign content in that saw.

I think skilsaw would go out of they way to get an american blade so they could say made in the usa...If that was the only foreign content...

 

[Kevin54]

Looks to be a couple of Taiwan patents on there though!!!

 

[dxdexter]

Looks to be a couple of Taiwan patents on there though!!!

Probably the slides and wheels.

 

[Vinko]

^^^ don't know for sure, but just because something's patented in Taiwan doesn't mean that it has to be made there. I'd be curious, by the way, if there was a corresponding patent for the same thing in the US? Some industrious individual here could go through the US patent database and look up all the patents on the label. I assume there's some patent database in Taiwan, though whether it's accessible over the 'net, I don't know. And whether it would be in English, I don't know either.

 

[Merkava_4]

Looks to be a couple of Taiwan patents on there though!!!

Yeah, for the screws.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Looks to be a couple of Taiwan patents on there though!!!

Sometimes companies file for patents in countries that don't abide to internation patent laws to protect themselves from copies being made.