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Dog-faced pony soldier
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: A Rock Surrounded by a Whole lot of Water
Posts: 34,187
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2% Italy
96% Taiwan
2% Germany
Probably something like that.
FWIW I trust something "Made in Taiwan" about 100X more than something "Made in China" these days. Like you, I go out of my way to avoid stuff made there.
It's doubly depressing living in Long Beach - I can look outside my front door and literally see an endless stream of gigantic cargo ships bringing cheap, slave-labor-made crap from Asia into this country. They literally stretch from the Port of LA/Long Beach to Shanghai - far as the eye can see. This goes on each and every day, day and night, 24/7/365. They are processed as fast as possible and they return to get more junk - empty. Either that or they're full of U.S. dollars going back. Not sure. I only ever see "loaded" containers being taken off the ships though. The ones going back are empty.
Keep in mind that this is only ONE major port. Yes, it's a big one, but it's still only one. I wish every Wal-Mart shopping doofus out there could see this for themselves - maybe, just maybe it would change their perspective on our current manufacturing/trade problem.
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