"Made in USA" doesn't necessarily indicate superior quality, and what's worse it really doesn't mean anything to consumers anymore. There is a segment of the population willing to pay a premium for Made in USA but it is small and shrinking. Millennials and GenZ make up 50.4% of the US population, and to them a product's country of origin is far less relevant than design, color, price point, and consumer review ratings.
thats beacuse with todays rules and the industry that prays on this oldschool mindset, all one needs to do to sell a made in the usa item is do a small percentage of final assembly and retail packaging here..
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this is a dead horse topic but many who WASTE good extra money paying for what they think will support thier fellow americans are buying nothing more than name brands that have been leased out or bought out or subcontracted to manufacture overseas... I see this soo often everyday at work..
Lets take General motors for example..I use to service equipment there. my employer changed our vehicles to totota camrys. the guard would not let me past the gate, throwing insults about not letting me in with my american made (by americans in american factories) POS non union car he only told me this after ingoring me while I was waiting at the gate for 15 minutes and I got out and went inside the guardhouse..... My buddy works at this plant... He also owns a toyota... but had to buy a POS chevy spark made in Korea by Deawoo (now owned by gm and were most of their compact cars are made before rebranding as many different makes and models to manipulate buyers.) he did this so he has a vehicle to drive to work...
This is the kind of crap thats wrong with or economy and way of thinking.
I see this very often with everything from car parts to electronic to clothes (levis jeans are a case in point shuttering all american jean factories years ago) yet thier marketing plays to the loyal ignorant american who believes what they see in marketing and on tv without question or research.
I see it over and over here too when people pay $50 for the same component from places like auberins , Thinking and telling others its a higher quality american part than the one on amazon for $12 shipped becuase it comes from an american company.
Monster mill is an american made mill. a3 roller mill with hopper and crank costs what $300=shipping?
a 3 roller kegco clone costs $150 shipped.. they look almost identical and if an engineer was to compare the two without knowing who or where they were made or cost, he would most likely pick the kegco because it has sealed ball bearing like one has to upgrade to the pro line of mills to get at monster mill and pay what $600 to get?
Why? because MM spends more on american salaries and marketing? it seems they also have to offer and inferior product at twice the cost and I cant help but see this and say something is not right? is it cost of materials?
These tarrifs will never hold long enough to have any impact.
My employer just announced they will be shuttering our last american manufacturing plant in the US this week and shipping the product from one of our global plants in Germany... One of the nails in the coffin was the cost of the raw materials (aluminum) has gone up 13% thanks to tarrifs... how is this helping us again? Apparently the tarrifs on the german made product if any arent an issue?
This kind of crap is just going to raise the cost of all the goods we buy and we will never live to see any benefit since it will just be changed again at some point when constituents desire down the road once different republicans and democrats who own stock in these american companies making foreign goods start realizing the losses to them... Once these prices hike they rarely come back down.. look at the fuel surcharges companies still charge that were implemented during fuel cost spikes long ago.. I just paid like $200 on such a fee for one pallet of grain. and dont get me started on the subsidizing of the farmers to keep them quiet.. how is that different from the kind of crap republicans call socialism when pitched by Dems?
Sorry Im getting off the soapbox now.. end rant!
