I, personally, do not care where a product is manufactured, so long as it is manufactured correctly. And I am dubious of the shortcuts required to ship a product half way around the world, and still offer it for a lower price than an indigenous competitor.
There isn't much you can do when companies still claim to uphold a higher standard of manufacturing, yet source out assembly/labor or small part building to cheaper facilities with lower standards. It's almost impossible to reliably follow that paper trail with any amount of certainty, so you have to trust the advertising and hope "made in where-ever" still means what you want it to.
That being said, we all know you get what you pay for. A lot of people try save a buck, and then cry "made in China"... it's not fair.
I am all for supporting local business. And it's great in theory. But the reality of this day and age is that we are a global market. It doesn't matter if you want to build local, and do business with the ma & pop machine shop in your old neighborhood... your competitors want profit, so they outsource, and you go out of business.
That is reality today, so we have to use the information available to us, and make well informed choices where we spend our money. If a company is putting cheap sh!t in their products, that information will get out, and it's up to you as a consumer to read reviews and do the research.
That's my take on it, at least.
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