See that in itself is sort of. Tangentially. Part of the heinous political agenda. Because your American made products are often made from non-american made components or materials. And your non American made products are even more often made from American made source materials. You’re pretty often supporting American manufacturing whether it says “Made in the USA” or not. The whole push to buy things that are manufactured in their final stage in the US is a political thing, that’s mostly about demonizing trade/ imports whatever.
LIke I’ve been reading a lot about CPU manufacturing lately. Most high end or current gen cpus are made in the us. The dies are printed here, often for IP reasons. The bulk of the manufacture is state side. But they’re packaged in Asia for the most part. Some times Europe. The chip is already made, but cutting the die into individual chips, connecting it to a heat spreader and mounting it on PCB, printing logos and boxing takes place outside the US. So they’ll almost never be labeled as manufactured in the US.
I happen to have a box from an old CPU sitting near my desk. This is what it says about its manufacture:
"AMD Processors are diffused in one or more of the following countries and/or region: Germany, Singapore, and Taiwan.
AMD Processors are made in one of more of the following countries and/or region: China Malaysia and Taiwan."
But, again having paid attention to the subject lately, its almost certain the chip itself was produced somewhere in the US. And China, Malaysia, and Taiwan are pretty specifically the countries where AMD doesn’t have dies made, but has them packaged. Despite the “made” appellation. When the base chip is rarely pressed outside the US its apparently (or was at the time, older box) somewhere in Europe. Germany, Ireland. The US is mentioned nowhere on the label.
A shaped hunk of steel is way less complicated. But how much do you want to bet Bondhus’s steel and or plastic doesn’t come from the US. And its possible Tekton’s does.
