18 Iconic Products America Doesn't Make Anymore

[berserk]

Beat me to it, I have never picked up an American flag and seen "made in the USA"

 

[JonDough]

Look at the tag inside a border patrol uniform............

Hencho in Mexico

 

[ByrdC130]

It's a shame most of our American flags aren't even made here anymore.

But if they were made in America, they wouldn't have contained the toxic chemicals that are released when burned and affect the burner!

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/0...s-from-burning-american-flag/?intcmp=trending

 

[gl55]

I just bought 2 replacement batteries for my DeWalt power tools for $51 total price with free shipping on Ebay. Both had Made In China labels on them. Or I could have gone to a big box store and bought the DeWalt batteries for $60 each plus tax for a total of around $130. It's the world we live in.

 

[348]

Beat me to it...

By only a year and a half.

 

[68mustang]

Beat me to it, I have never picked up an American flag and seen "made in the USA"

LOL beat you to it by a year and a half!

 

[348]

Is there an echo in here?

 

[dru]

We called our last experiment with a protective tariff The Great Depression. Do you have a name in mind for your proposal?

As I consider the list, am I to understand that all of these are gone due to the lack of a protective tariff? If that is so, then I find some errors on the list. A good example would be the incandescent light bulb. I think its demise can be better attributed to misguided legislative action rather than the lack of a tariff. It is a rarity to be able to assign one root cause to an obviously complex matter so it would be a stretch, IMO, to choose a tariff as the solution to bring these products back to US manufacturing.

BTW, did you know that the US only recently was superseded by China as the world's leading manufacturing country? This ended a 110-year run of the US as the world's leading manufacturing entity. Link below from 3/10/2011:

http://www.manufacturingdigital.com/tags/us/china-vs-us-manufacturing-comparison

Thank God someone was able to come into this thread with a good understanding of tariffs and their damaging effects

 

[caojyn]

Yep, I was really interested in getting a new winchester 94 to replace one that was stolen and almost **** a brick when I found that they're made over there in Japan. Nope, no thank you

 

[Hobbes]

It's an interesting fact that for the first 80 years the budget of the federal government was funded almost entirely from tariffs.
In 1860 tariffs provided 95% of federal revenue and the average tariff was 15%.

Another factoid courtesy of PBS.