|
Don't feel too bad Tony. Your New Balance
shoes were probably as much Made in USA as any other marked with the USA sticker
but because of highly exclusive trade laws on shoes, they had to be marked as
imports. Most "Made in USA" NB shoes are actually assembled by American
crafts-people but if just the shoelaces and maybe the dye are made in another
country, NB has to mark them imported. In your case, made in China.
It's a little trick the American leather industry lobbied congress to write into
law just before they all bailed out and moved their factories overseas. If
your shoe contains some minor amount of foreign material, you have to mark it as
an import even though the labor is all domestic.
|