Mike wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:00:13 -0500, Louis Ohland
wrote:

http://www.starrett.com/pages/441_st...lobal_s eries
"Starrett Global Series
While the Starrett brand is synonymous with “American Made”, we have
manufactured products worldwide for nearly 50 years. These products are
available in the U.S.A. and identified as “Global Series”. Regardless of
country of origin, the Starrett brand remains your assurance of
unmatched precision, quality and value."

Mmm. I have nothing against Starrett or anyone else making tools in a
foreign market to service that market. But the idea of Foreign made
tools coming back to the US makes me pause. If they are Starrett
quality, then the folks with the Wal-Mart philosophy of cheaper = better
will be pleased. But I think that it's a sign that US business is being
held back by government. Think for a moment - a US plant, US technology,
that is local to the market (aka no transpacific shipping) has to import
tools made in a third country to compete in the market.

My Starrett 0-1" micrometer manufactured around 30 years ago is still
as good as the day it was made, apart from a (free) repair to the
spindle lock around 25 years ago it's travelled just 100 miles south
of its place of manufacture..... Scotland, some 3000 miles east of the
USA

I was talking to a Canadian this week, and he told me that china wants
70% of a product sold in china to have chinese content. If a product is
less than 70% chinese, then tariffs are slapped on it. As I said,
Starrett tools made for the chinese market are fine, but when those
chinese Starretts come back here, I have issues with that.

This fantasy of the huge chinese market still draws moths to the flame.
Could someone be so kind as to point out how non-chinese manufacturers
in china are profiting?