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 Re: Vagabond Mini Lithium: Made in USA? | |
RDKirk wrote:
Mr. Buff has said that the front face plate is labeled Made in USA because that part was made here, but not the battery or the charger and whatever else. So what you have here is a Frankenstein with parts dug from different graves then.
That\'s not what he said. He did not say the \"Made in USA\" label shows because that particular part was made here. He did say individual components are marked for their location of manufacture, and that\'s true anywhere. Open of your computer and examine the circuit boards.
I build my own computers. I determine the requirements, spec the parts, design the system. The components come from a variety of places--Singapore, China, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Mexico. None of those components is a bare resister or capacitor--they are all full components like hard drives and circuit boards. I just wire, plug, and screw.
Where is the computer made, however? How can the computer be said to have been manufactured by anyone except me?
Repeating from the first time ...
[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2010]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR134.35]
[Page 838]
TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
CHAPTER I--U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
PART 134_COUNTRY OF ORIGIN MARKING--Table of Contents
Subpart D_Exceptions to Marking Requirements
Sec. 134.35 Articles substantially changed by manufacture.
(a) Articles other than goods of a NAFTA country. An article used in
the United States in manufacture which results in an article having a
name, character, or use differing from that of the imported article,
will be within the principle of the decision in the case of United
States v. Gibson-Thomsen Co., Inc., 27 C.C.P.A. 267 (C.A.D. 98). Under
this principle, the manufacturer or processor in the United States who
converts or combines the imported article into the different article
will be considered the ``ultimate purchaser\'\' of the imported article
within the contemplation of section 304(a), Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 1304(a)), and the article shall be excepted from
marking. The outermost containers of the imported articles shall be
marked in accord with this part.
(b) Goods of a NAFTA country. A good of a NAFTA country which is to
be processed in the United States in a manner that would result in the
good becoming a good of the United States under the NAFTA Marking Rules
is excepted from marking. Unless the good is processed by the importer
or on its behalf, the outermost container of the good shall be marked in
accord with this part.
[T.D. 72-262, 37 FR 20318, Sept. 29, 1972, as amended by T.D. 94-1, 58
FR 69472, Dec. 30, 1993]
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