Buying American RE: [AT] Re: Chinese Iron

[Rob Wilson]

If you really want to buy American check out this site. 

http://www.howtobuyamerican.com/

Sort of like the meat packers arguing that Country of Origin labeling
would be a nightmare. It would because if most people saw that their
money was going to buy beef from countries that they couldn't even
pronounce they would stop buying it. Meijer store locally had their own
brand apple juice on sale and all over it there were labels about Meijer
from Michigan but they put the print small on the label that said it was
imported from China. We're a smallish community and when word got around
about this Meijer couldn't sell it anymore since it just sat on the
shelf. My Grandma says you reap what you sow. Well we better start
planting locally. 
Rob


-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Gerald
Johnson
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:01 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Chinese Iron


I once had a client that was a glove manufacturer that sold 100%
"American Made" gloves and took pride in sewing that "made in America"
label in each glove.  Then they found that under the laws governing the
use of the label, only one small step in the glove making process was
required to be performed in this country.  As it turned out, their
competitors were having their gloves made in Mexico and shipped to the
USA complete except for one small area on the thumb.  When the gloves
got here, each pair had a few stitches put in the thumb and then they
could legally put the "made in America" label inside.  My client refused
to do that and eventually lost most of its
business.   I sometimes wondered if the law could be stretched far
enough so
that the sewing in of the label itself would qualify the item as "made
in
America"!   This is just one example of why the textile industry in
North
Carolina is virtually gone now.

Gerald