How to interpret &quot;USA made&quot;
<p>Like many consumers these days, I now depend on home delivery for many of my 'non-essential' items. </p>

<p>I have been shopping online for a steel product which is often counterfeited (mostly from China), and have managed to weed out the more obvious fakes. Unfortunately, the very manufacturer that produces the item has  contributed to the confusion by either importing the prime material and assembling it in the USA, or has exported the American-made parts to be assembled in China. </p>

<p>In this case, the product is recognized world-wide as superior when made of US steel and assembled in the USA, and may in fact be considered undependable in a critical situation (read "your life depends on it")</p>

<p>I think possibly this issue is being avoided by <a href="https://www.gerbergear.com/en-us/search-results-page?searchterm=lmf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">advertising the product as "USA Made".</a></p>

<p>In the past, "Made in U.S.A." meant something.</p>

<p>Is "USA Made" just a weasel-word, or is it actually another way to say "Made in the USA"? </p>

<h2>“USA Made” is an enforceable <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bus03-complying-made-usa-standard.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">country of origin claim</a></h2>
<p>While the normal way of expressing this is &quot;Made in the USA&quot;, the exact format of a country of origin claim is not prescribed and can even be implied; although “USA Made” is an express claim.</p>
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<p>For a product to be called Made in USA, or claimed to be of domestic origin without qualifications or limits on the claim, the product must be “all or virtually all” made in the U.S. The term “United States,” as referred to in the Enforcement Policy Statement, includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories and possessions.</p>
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<p>This includes the manufacturing of a substantial part of the core product. For example, a knife &quot;made in the USA&quot; might have a foreign-made sheath.</p>
<p>As an aside “American made” is not equivalent to “USA made”. A product made anywhere in North or South America can legitimately claim to be “American made” (assuming it doesn’t imply a country it wast made in). Conversely, a product made in Guam is “USA made” but not “American made”.</p>

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