Craftsman tools
Bose
F-16s
Harley Davidsons
Bell helicopters
Sikorsky helicopters
Boeing jets
Ford trucks (they are good)
General Electric turbine engines
Viking appliances
Wolfe appliances
John Deere tractors
Caterpillar diesel engines
Jenn-Air
Calloway
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These products are assembled in USA with parts and components sourced from all over the world, including China.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the most famous global-cooperation project. Companies in Japan, China and Europe make various pieces with Boeing doing the final assembly. It may not be the most cost-effective way but it is necessary to entice these foreign governments to support their country’s airliners to buy Boeing jets. If Boeing insists on 100% made in USA, it would go bankrupt since foreign airliners make up the bulk of its business nowadays.
US is perfectly capable of being 100% self-reliant, as we’re one of the very few countries in the world that have all the know-how and the natural resources to make just about anything and everything. However that’d make us another North Korea.
In the 70s, Japanese products were laughed at. In the 80s and up to mid 90s, it was the Taiwanese products (remember in the movie Armageddon the Russian cosmonaut said “Russian components, American components, they’re all made in Taiwan”…or something like that). Now it’s the Chinese.
Eventually when Chinese-made products get better (as Japanese and Taiwanese products have), we’ll find someone else to blame. I can just see it. June 4th – July 4th of 2019 will be the “anti-Bulgaria” month.
