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Originally Posted by RWebb
The US was known as a manf. of cheap junk and exported to England and Europe.
This was in the early 1800s and the main export was wooden furniture. Things changed, and I expect them to change in China.
Same with Japan in the 1950s - they quickly went to JIS and high-quality manf. I expect China will be slower.
When something is "Made in the USA" it is often assembled here, from components made in China/mexico/Brazil/india - esp. steel is made in China (except Nucor) and then products made from it here.
Then there is the Taiwan vs. China issue - buy from Taiwan and you are making a stmt. to the C. Party that rules mainland China.
Finally, jobs are not coming back to the US. Manf.ing will come back as robots make more and more items.
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and then those robots will be sold to or made in China and they will mfg stuff for even less due to rent, lack of unions, and labor and sell it back to us and we will buy them all day long and complain about how we don't mfg anything anymore.