There's more to it than that, though - every modern electronic device is the result of a truly international effort, incorporating components and sub-assemblies made all over the world. "Made", "assembled"... it's all the same thing.
The Chinese "manufacturing" operation amounted to no more than sticking components made all over the world onto boards. Looking at the big picture, that particular part of the assembly process is no more or less significant than the wafer fabrication (think Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia...), mining the raw materials or the final assembly and test, wherever that may have been. To qualify as 'made' in the USA, would you expect that the aluminium ore had been mined there? Or that the plastics were derived from oil on US territory? How about the tin in the solder? Is there really something so special about where the electronic parts were soldered to a PCB, as opposed to all the other manufacturing processes involved in making a complete electronic device? Why? -- AndyC_772 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndyC_772's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35899 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
