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The Tip is 'Labeling Tip 1' Know Your Labeling - For products Made in America, the greater the US content the more American jobs required to produce it. So whenever possible choose the product with the highest percentage of U.S.content. US content must be disclosedon Made in USA textiles, automobiles, wool, and fur products. There is no law requiringmost other products to be marked or labeled made in USA, or, have any otherdisclosure about their amount of U.S. content. Those manufacturers and marketers who choose to make claims about the amount of U.S. content must comply with the FTC's Made in USA policy. Note: Imported products must have the country of origin on their label whileproducts partially Made in USA do not. For a product produced in the U.S. to be labeled made in USA, or claimed to beof domestic origin without qualifications or limits on the claim, the product must be all or virtually all made in the U.S. This would mean that all significant parts and processing that go into the product are of U.S. origin. The product should contain no (or negligible) foreign content. Made in the USA products create the greatest number of American jobs for our country. This is because the labor to produce the product, and the raw materials that go into the product, are created with American labor. For most products, there is no law requiring made in America labels, or any other disclosure about the amount of U.S. content. However, for job creation purposes if you have a choice between an imported product and one with no country of origin on the label, choose the product without a country of origin over the imported one. The product without the country origin on its label has some American labor in its content and the imported one most likely does not. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Super Pouch Welcome to SuperPouch. Established in 1987, SuperPouch quickly got off to a slow start. We thought there has got to be a better way to carry one's tools except a five gallon bucket or a canvas coal bag. So after reviewing what was available in the way of tool bags and after much trial and error our first all canvas, no rivets or wire inserts or zippers, tool/organizer carrier was born. The model we called the 24-0, 24 outside pouches, open top self standing tool organizer/carrier. Made of 24 oz., number 4 cotton duck. We now had our own proto type, now came the challenge, How to manufacture the bag in the U.S.A. with our high quality standards, and still share this great tool organizer with our contractor friends at a small profit? Needless to say we were persistent and many times along the way we were ready to throw in the towel. High manufacturing costs, high materials costs, distribution costs, advertising costs, boxing, packaging, were among the many steps that had to be trimmed. Sure off shore manufacturing was cheaper, much cheaper but quality control, availability and ability to innovate were worth more. Our objective was not to create jobs in other countries. Our objective was to make a good American product with good quality and a reasonable price and to protect our time and effort, an easy to remember product name and a Trade Mark to protect our name. In 1995, realizing the tremendous impact the Internet would have on commerce, we established our presence on the World Wide Web, and at the same time started accepting Credit Card Mastercard/Visa purchases. Since those early days in 1987 our family owned and operated company has grown from one standard tool organizer product to over 25 different innovative products. Our newest Trade Marked product SnatchEm shows our innovation at organizing all kinds of coiled products and small tools. Please check our web pages from time to time for our latest in innovative products. |
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