Dave Balderstone wrote:

I do not buy goods that I know to be made in China.

I have a few more questions for you if you're willing...

What about goods that are "made" in a favorable country, but are
very likely to have major parts made in China? (I'm speaking of
products that may not be explicitly labeled as such, but you highly
suspect that it's at least partly made in China.)

What about goods that are made in a favorable country, but made with
tooling that was mostly made in China?

Would you shop at a store whose success is largely due to cheap
Chinese imports, even if the particular item you are purchasing
happens to be made in a favorable country?

Do you use specific criteria when determining from which countries you
will buy goods or is more of an informal "from the hip" decision?

Besides China and the US, are there any other countries you do not buy
goods from? If you have reasons, I would be interested to hear them.

Joe Barta