I think the question youa re asking it somewhat of a misleading one in my opinion.
If you are looking at US based tool companies, then quite a few have sent production offshore or to Asia since Nafta and before, but the US made products still standing high in quality of mfg.
If youa re looking at US based tool companies that still make US prdoucts that have lowered thier quality to the point that cost and offshoring is necessary, then ther are a varitey.
But--what it really comes down to is those companies like Apex, Danaher, etc. that supply and mfgr. tools for third parties that deem it no longer feasible to make tools here in the US competitively and thus tell thier clients the same.
It is just business, but lowering the quality of a product just to mnfgr it in the US to the point of value engineering it to its base is an uncompetitive and loosing battle just the same.
So, to answer your question, just take a stroll thru your local HD, Lowes, mom and pop and professioanl/industrial/graiger supplier and tell me what you see.
This sounds like a lazy man's question to an answer he already knows or want to believe he already has knows but really is not savvy enough to do the legwork on.
I know the answer, but I **** at doing other people's homework for them.
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All in all, I see it more in the grocery business like cheese, crackers, poultry (injected with brine-wtf), paper products and macaroni and flour based products.
Tools are too easy to send to Asia once they hit the diminsihing quality mfg v. quality pricepoint.
No news here.
As Sears as done, one quarter you can ***** about the USA made quality and next quarter it's made in Taiwan or PROC.
