Thankfully, there are ways to find out if a product is made in the US. According to governmental guidelines, under current Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines, “a product may be advertised as “Made in the USA” if “all or virtually all” of the labor and materials in the product are domestic.”
There is a certain flexibility in this rigid situation, however. If a “very small amount of foreign content” is used, the FTC standard allows the product to be described as “Made in the USA.”
As well as that, “the advertiser has the option to soften or “qualify” its Made in the USA claim by disclosing, for example, that the product is made in the U.S. with foreign and domestic materials”, the guidelines state.
In short, there will be a label that says “Made in the USA”. But what most people don’t know is that the phrase “made in America” is not the same. This label can also be used for Canada and Mexico because of the free trade agreement (NAFTA) currently in place.
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