would someone explain "made in usa with global components"
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It means the steel, brass, plastic or whatever other raw components it has are out sourced and put together, forged, cast, etc. in the USA. They may even do this: take a screwdriver for example, they make the entire blade and shank in china as well as the handle, They ship it here and put the two parts together in the US. Simple as that.
The ironic part is they say that it is too expensive to make products in the USA.
So why is the garbage CHINA counter-part the exact same made in USA price then???? If they pay someone 10 cents an hour and no quality control as the metal is SCRAP and no way to quality control it in a 3rd world country ran by slave labor.
It probably cost more money in lawyers getting this put in place than hiring people in the USA to make the tools.
I am finding that CHINA made garbage tools cost MORE than actual Made in USA tools.
Worst thing is the world is JUNK tools.
anndel
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Assembled in the USA with components made elsewhere in the world.
aka = CHINA
high price attorneys I am sure were paid very well in order to pull this lie off
anndel
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Professionally Built by Amateurs
anndel
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Corporate Greed and Profit, whichever generates the most profit.
I agree 100% guttin the country for monopoly money.
a990dna
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Well... need to ask yourself how much assembly is there on a wrench?
If you're purchasing a wrench with the origin of manufacture stated as "Made in the USA with foreign components," most likey the wrench is made and shipped in bulk from China or wherever, and packaged in USA.
There's also a chance the steel is purchased from a foreign source and the final production and packaging is in USA.
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Costs are going up in China as their Middle Class is growing. Labor rate is closer to $1/hr now. US companies are building factories there, staffed with American engineers and using USA machinery. Quality has improved as well, and not only for tools. Chinese-made musical instruments are proving to be extremely good. Examples are the Fender/Squier "Classic Vintage" guitars---I bought the Precision Bass and its quality is only a notch below the US-made version (and I've owned dozens of them), and only 1/4 the cost. I just saw the Keith Urban acoustic guitar set and it's an unbelievable starter kit for $300. Try as you might to bash the imports, they are not going away.
BTW, I've been to China numerous times and their infrastructure puts ours to shame: 6 lane hwys smooth as glass, modern bridges, high-speed trains, mega malls filled with technology. If you only watch FOX news, you'd never know it.
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APEowner
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Any well run company that does high volume production is going to have multiple sources for components and materials. In today's economy that often means global sources. I've worked with more than one company that prefers to source stuff from the states (and may in fact most of the time) but labels their product "Made in USA with global components" so they don't have to have multiple SKUs for their packaging and tie the supply chain to the packaging.
logical
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Someone should import some reading comprehension skills. It means what it says.
dnschmidt
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It's a ******** line to make you feel better. Some high school drop out is assembling **** made in China and elsewhere where all of the heavy lifting was moved to. So the foundries, injection molding machines, and everything that matters with respect to the industrial base of our country was offshored and they send kits back to be assembled by human robots so that you can feel that it was made in the good old USA.
Lassen Forge
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The base components and sub assemblies were made elsewhere (Viet Nam, China, Mexico, Slovenia, Korea, etc.), and the final final assembly was made here (as in everything is in one half of the outer housing, they shipped the housings separate from Afghanistan, and someone here put a USA plug on it, put the 2 parts together, and it's "proudly made in the USA"...
Actually it's not that uncommon - look at cars nowadays - no one builds all the components to build a car here, a lot of the parts are sourced from "elsewhere". When you realize that the major steel producing countries are no longer on this hemisphere, it's easy to see why we went from a nation of producers t a nation of buyers and consumers.
Actually it's not that uncommon - look at cars nowadays - no one builds all the components to build a car here, a lot of the parts are sourced from "elsewhere". When you realize that the major steel producing countries are no longer on this hemisphere, it's easy to see why we went from a nation of producers t a nation of buyers and consumers.
Fender1325
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Milwaukee shite is funny - "professionally assembled in _____" foreign cheap labor land.
Its fucked up but ultimately - big companies have to play ball if they want to sell a product at a competitive price point. Otherwise they become "specialty" brands that do a great job, for 4 times the price.
We need to not blame these companies but our own government for letting this BS slide. No taxation. Its our fault as much as chinas and everyone else.
Its fucked up but ultimately - big companies have to play ball if they want to sell a product at a competitive price point. Otherwise they become "specialty" brands that do a great job, for 4 times the price.
We need to not blame these companies but our own government for letting this BS slide. No taxation. Its our fault as much as chinas and everyone else.
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a990dna
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No.. its not a "******** line to make you feel better." If you read the regulations this is a trade compliance requirement intended for the purchaser and when products enter customs.
The source of manufacturing is a complex legal, trade and tariff issue if you're a global manufacturer. If you import several components from multiple countries to make one finished goods item that you manufacture and distribute globally, you're not going to state on the labeling where each raw material comes from.
Take for example Rhodium wire. Its purchased as a raw material from one country and converted in Germany in the form of a thin wire and then shipped to the US for production. In this case what would you state is the point of manufacture?
This isn't a "China" issue...
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not necessarily. Saw a california company that makes basketball hoops, one rivet couldn't be sourced from US, so they imported. Some ambulance chaser lawyer sued and won based on a strict Cali state labeling law.
Law intended to help US jobs and this lawyer cashing in on it suing for ********
While there are some companies that I'm sure abuse the "assembled in USA" or "made in USA with global components" by bringing in a product and adding a label or bolting two assemblies together, it actually is not legal to do so, to be labeled so, the components must have undergone a major transformation. The unfortunate thing is that due to the requirements of the FTC a product could be 95% made in the USA and legally you cannot just label it Made in USA, it has to be "assembled in USA" instead.
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chris142
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Whenever i see the global components thing it reminds me of this commercial.
