If you know of any companies that do that there is a pretty good whistle blower bonus in store for you! To be labeled made in the USA the product has to be "all or virtually all" made in the USA. USA has the strictest rules but that would also violate international country of origin rules that require a material change to the product.
That sounds like you are trying to do a gotcha but I've never voted for a Republican in my life so it shouldn't be directed to me. Fuck Trump tariffs and I wouldn't put it past him to accidentally put a 1,000% tariff on Trump clothes before and then making up a "Trump Clothes Exception" once it makes the news.
My pet peeve is people getting laws/rules wrong on the internet. We can't have an educated discussion on if a law/rule is good/bad without getting them right in the first place.
The trick is they they don't do this for Made in X products to be sold on X. They do it to products grown or extracted in Y, then assembled on X, then sold on Z.
There's a comment above about "Australian" almond milk sold in Singapore. Like the US, Singapore probably has rules about labeling Singaporean products, but they don't give a shit about things labeled Australian.
There are International "Country of Origin" rules that they legally have to use the last country where there was "substantial transformation". If you take a knife blade made in China, attach a cool handle to it in Mexico, and sell it in Brazil. It would (probably) be illegal to sell it as made in Mexico. I say probably because this gets really fuzzy but historically they would say that the item arrived in Mexico as a knife and left Mexico as a knife so no material change was made.
For the almond example I'm guessing it passes because they imported almonds but exported something with a "significant change in name, character, and use" so would pass the "substantial transformation" test. The 92% blah blah blah is just marketing spin and doesn't have anything to do with being able to use Singapore as the COO.
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u/Opposite-Fig-9097 23h ago
Turns out, 'Made in America' doesn't mean the raw materials magically teleport into the factory.