Recently..... In Canada..... An American businessman was interviewed
about his recent relocation of his American company to Canada.

He went on to explain in some detail the protectionist attitude of the
American government and how it had finally forced him to relocate his
company to Canada.

His product depended on a raw material that was both produced in the US
and imported into the US. It had very high tariffs attached to it, and
that particular raw material was controlled by a small number of US
companies who for decades had enjoyed artificially high prices for
their material due to intense lobbying and the sucess of high tariffs.

The finished product was to many a national icon whoes history goes
back almost a hundred years. They had been located in the same American
community for their entire history and untill the day they moved out,
the welcome sign to that community reminded the world that this town
proudly manufactured this companies product. A product used by billions
of people in the preceeding century but also enjoyed by billions of non
Americans from around the word. The product was a household name
and when America marched to war this product marched with the soldiers
just like coca cola and GM cars. The product had wide spread appeal to
all generations from kids to seniors, regardless of color, sex or any
other consideration. One could safely say that virtually everyone who
ever tried the product..... liked it.

And yet the manufacturer was finally forced by the economics of a
protectionist attitude in the US to move to a more receptive coutry
where they were free to buy their raw materials in a free market which
saved them about half of their production costs.

Can anyone name the raw material, and the finished product....???????