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| ....He said company officials thought that if cables were finished with plugs and packaged in the U.S., they could be labeled as U.S.-made even though the original wiring was produced in Asia.... |
Admittedly, I don't understand what conditions are required before something can be labeled "U.S.-made," but, then again, my companies don't manufacture physical goods for sale. It does surprise me that the feds would go after TARA Labs -- relatively speaking, it seems like a small fish to fry, and the article doesn't seem to me to present anything that smells like terrible deceit.
I would have imagined that if I made a headphone amp, and the capacitors and resistors were made in another country, that I'd still be able to say my product is "U.S.-made." Is it a percentage-of-parts, and/or percentage-of-labor issue? I'm asking sincerely, because I don't know. Quote:
....Labels also were removed inappropriately from some wholly foreign-made cables by accident, Bond claimed. They were sold without labels showing where they were made.
"No fraud was intended or, indeed, perpetrated," he said. "These mistakes were rectified and won’t happen here again." |
I would imagine a lot of smaller companies sell certain kinds of products without labels showing where they were made.
As someone who has many different types of cables, including some from TARA Labs, I couldn't recall whether any of them came with clear labeling of manufacturing country origin, nor have I ever noted or asked where any of them were made.
I'm not saying that nothing wrong was done -- I don't know enough to judge that on a purely legal basis. I'm just saying that the article doesn't reasonably frame (for me at least) something that appears particularly malicious or deceitful.
