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That's just the way the industry is going.
Skateboards, too. Lots of skateboard decks used to be produced in the US, mostly in California. Two of the biggest California deck producers quietly closed down their California factories in the past 6 months. They still make decks, they just do it in factories in China and Mexico now.
They "quietly" shut down their US operations because, of course, for years they railed against their competitor's overseas operations, and touted their proud Made in America products.
Those types of goods, which are basically unskilled labor and machine intensive, just aren't able to be competitively made in the US anymore, particularly in tax and regulation overburdened states like Cal.
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