MFG. U.S.A.
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MFG. U.S.A.
The package containing a reproduction Ford part so states. Does anyone know if this phrase is, in the applicable laws of commerce, the same as "Made in the U.S.A."?
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Eric "Made In The USA" means you have absoluty the best product that money can buy. A reproduction Part is one that is now being produced after the original supplier has stopped.
I personally think our neighbors across our northern border have the same standards as made in the usa, and as far as our neighbors to the south, time will tell.
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I personally think our neighbors across our northern border have the same standards as made in the usa, and as far as our neighbors to the south, time will tell.
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I wish I could agree. I've bought some real crap made in the USA and some great stuff made overseas. There are good reasons for buying American, but don't con yourself into thinking that just because its made here its the best.
Look at the TV market in the 70s. USA makers continued to make obsolete, expensive, unreliable vacuum tube sets with a failure rate of 5% even after Japanese makers started making better transistor based TVs with a failure rate of less than 1%. The TV manufacturers didn't wake up and went out of business, with Curtis Mathis lasting the longest.
Yeah, USA cotton is better quality than the Indian sub-continent cotton and makes softer clothes, US steel is generally better, software is better, technology and lots of other things. But "Made In USA" == quality isn't the the reality. "Made In USA" means its probably good quality, but not always.
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Look at the TV market in the 70s. USA makers continued to make obsolete, expensive, unreliable vacuum tube sets with a failure rate of 5% even after Japanese makers started making better transistor based TVs with a failure rate of less than 1%. The TV manufacturers didn't wake up and went out of business, with Curtis Mathis lasting the longest.
Yeah, USA cotton is better quality than the Indian sub-continent cotton and makes softer clothes, US steel is generally better, software is better, technology and lots of other things. But "Made In USA" == quality isn't the the reality. "Made In USA" means its probably good quality, but not always.
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I am one of your neighbours to the north, and tend to agree, but I am concerned that a distributor can boast that its product is "MFG U.S.A." when the phrase might have no prescribed legal meaning. Maybe it means "Mailed from Gooberville". If it is US made, why does it not clearly say so? I'm reminded of the apocryphal town of Usa, Japan, which was credited with the manufacture of many consumer goods in the days when Japan made only junk.
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I really wonder if there is such a thing anymore. I mean Ford puts mazda, mitsubishi, and romeo stuff in there vehicles. Chevy and dodge do or have in the past. Chevy sends alot of there stuff to mexico to be assymbled. Toyota builds Tundras in the states. My nissan was built in tennessee. Honda builds there quad foorwheelers in the states. Most all electrical equipment is imported now. Almost all steel in the U.S. is imported from canada,indonesia,or geneva. I'ts hard to figure. Imports kill our jobs. Then they build there stuff here. So we export and build our stuff over there.
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