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Why doesn't everyone just buy American?
>_>
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@AlteredBeast: I thought that most African countries already imported container loads of used US clothing and shoes. Supposedly this killed the local seamstress and tailor industry back in the mid 1990s...
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@AlteredBeast:
Not much is made im America anymore.
You can get soda, and... well the fuel filter I bought yesterday... Half our food supply isn't even made in america anymore.
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> clothing with the wrong country of origin isn't going to kill anybody
But if it's from China it could well end up giving you caustic chemical burns.
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It would be pretty funny to return from your African Safari with a \"hand crafted\" item you bought from someone in some isolated village only to notice that it was made in China and imported to African villages by the millions for the purposes of selling to tourists...
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@pupu: My Japanese tetsubin teapot was made in China, and my Alaskan reindeer pelt turned out to be a product of Finland. I just keep getting burned.
Damn, I just bought a Christmas ornament with attached potholder.
**runs to check label**
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Interesting. Now the Third World is defrauding itself.
I remember seeing Bogner ski ware being made in Hong Kong with labels saying Made In Germany or devices being cast in Japan saying Made in Sweden.
Sometimes consumers develop a level of trust based on where the product is made and manufactures know that and on occasion may not tell the full truth.
Don't forget that a lot of the expensive \"Made In Italy\" leather goods are actually made by Chinese workers brought in to Italy just for that work.
@Greasy Thumb Guzik:
Aren't Made in and Made by 2 different things?
Made by chinese workers in china probably not as good as made by chinese workers in italy. Italians might have some better standards. Just wanting cheaper labor.
@Greasy Thumb Guzik: Or if you order something custom made, they send the order off to a chinese factory, and then get it back and put the finishing touches on it in whatever country your buying it in or it supposedly came from. This allows them to put a Made in Italy or a Made in the USA label on it.
I hear there are a lot of custom shirt makers doing this, because its cheaper to send off the order than to have all the supplies and workers to make the shirts in the USA.
Even if something is produced in the USA, is it produced with materials that came from China or another country?
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A little background here. A lot a African traditional outfits are made with these textiles. They are shipped in bulk and sold in markets all over the continent.
When you want to an outfit to make an entrance at that big event/wedding/birthday party/etc, you pick the material you want, then take it to a tailor that sews your outfit for you. It's a real traditional thing and a point of pride for most African women and men (although this is mostly a female thing).
It is also big business (think bespoke traditional clothing!). The prices range from the basic affordable stuff to insanely expensive. Markets that sell these imported cloths are usually packed on weekends and holidays with vendors promising exclusives and such.
i see that the figures are being converted from crores to dollars. but shouldnt the exchange rate also be taken in consideration ? like 1 crore = 10 million. but 1 crore rupees = 200,00 dollars and NOT 10 million dollars. so that makes 224.7 crore rupees to be equal to 44.94 million dollars and so on.
just my 2 rupees.. oops i mean my 2 cents ;)
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Does anyone remember Salute Your Shorts and the episode involving the cow skull?
When I worked in a cast plaster furniture manufacturer place in (~north~) Philadelphia PA we boxed up some of the lines in boxes that said \"Made in Mexico\". I think the owners did that to give it an exotic apeal or something or maybe to skate around safety laws.
The counterfeiters are counterfeiting the counterfeiters now o_O
Say that five times fast!
@bloggerX: Indian goods made in india are not counterfeit, technically speaking. So no thanks, i wont spend time repeating that 5 times.