<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Back in the day when people would not buy stuff made in Japan in the US one company put “Made in USA” on their products. There was a place in Japan called Usa.</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jan 26, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Tony Scharf <<a href="mailto:noisetheorem@outlook.com">noisetheorem@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><pre>>>True that, though of course you have a few companies trying hard to differentiate themselves in this regard .. “Assembled in the UK”, and so on.<br></pre><pre>I take issue when manufacturers use that word 'assembled'. It usually means the boards, keys and metal were all actually made somewhere else and then shipped to a location for putting together. In some cases, all that's done is 'assembling' the device, power chord and manuals into individual boxes for shipping. We insure a number of manufacturers that use this trick to say 'Assembled in the USA' on their products when the real work was all done oversees. </pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Tony</pre></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>