[AT] Re: Chinese Iron

[RJK.Sr]

Several years back I bought a Briggs & Straton vibration tachometer.
On the box it was stamped in big print, Made in USA but the viber-tac 
inside was stamped as a product of German.   Guess only the box was 
made in USA... 

Richard 
West Michigan.  

On 1 Dec 2005 at 23:00, Gerald Johnson wrote:

> 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
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> From: "Irma" <bellville1 at earthlink.net>
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> 
> > Oh, just in case you guys would like to know, the LeRoy company was who I
> > was working for and changing tags. They are no longer in business here. I
> am
> > not sure if the company is still up and running. They made LeRoy socks and
> > hosery.
> > Irma
> >
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