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 Publicado: Jue Abr 22, 2021 3:41 am Título del mensaje: new balance 990 |
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Interesting article, I just bought a pair of new new balance 530 balance trainers and was suprised when they read Made in UK', as most companies use foreign labour these days. Then I saw this article and began to suspect, but on further research it seems the Made in UK' shoes are indeed made here in a factory in cumbria, in this video you can clearly see them in various stages making the shoes. Most of the running shoe range as far as I can tell are fully made in UK' too, not just their higher end range. WOW. I recently started working at a "great American retailer" in the shoe department and tried to find a pair of shoes made in the U.S.A& . no luck! I would guess there are about 1000 different shoes and I have been checking every shoe I touch.
I have found two made in Indonesia, but the rest are from China. The Reebok's with an old style box are made in Indonesia, but the new ones are from China. We carry a large selection of New Balance; I have yet to see these made in the USA stickers other people have mentioned. This is alarming to say the least. A guy told me the other day that he bought a new balance trainers womens pair of work boots from this store I work in back in 1979 and he still wears them. They have a small tear, but other than that, they are still in great shape. We won't be hearing this story in 2040, that's for sure! New Balance now provides this article clarifying what component of which shoes is made domestically or assembled locally as per the above several distinctions.
We think this should be new balance womens trainers the law. When we last shopped for an automobile, we were able to see the country of origin and the percentage of the vehicle's total value, of the major components in the vehicle (engine, transmission, etc). We think all consumer goods should have to list similar info, such as "Country of Origin: China 80%, USA 15%, Other 5%"). This would open American consumer's eyes to what phrases like "Assembled In USA", "Made In USA Using Foreign Materials", and even "Made In USA" really mean. Back to the case of the individual at New Balance who posted a comment about New Balance to this article without disclosing that they are a company employee& The person involved contacted us as soon as we unmasked their affiliation with the company, and they were incredibly apologetic.
Anecdotal evidence, including our own new balance 1080v10 experience when shopping for shoes and diligently checking the tags in New Balance and other brands of shoes leads us to the (admittedly unscientific) conclusion that for many years now, the majority of New Balance shoes have been labeled unconditionally as "Made In China". A small percentage state that they are "assembled" here, and we believe a very small number of their high-end shoes carry an unconditional claim of "Made In USA". If your comment is true, it would be welcome news. Can you provide a source for the claim that "most" of their shoes (we guess that means at least half) are made in the U.S.? And could you (or any of our readers) quantify the percentage of New Balance products assembled fully or partly in U.S. factories, or point us towards a source of such statistics?
We attempted to locate the FTC's complaint against New Balance, but apparently, their website archive does not go that far back. We did, however, find this FTC complaint against New Balance , alleging price fixing, and this consent agreement , in which New Balance agrees to stop misrepresenting the origin of their shoes. If you take the time to read the consent order, it indicates that the FTC had alleged that New Balance was claiming that footwear "made wholly abroad" was made in the United States. As is usually the case with consent orders, the company made no admission of guilt, but simply agreed to cease and desist in the future. To our knowledge, N.B. has never actually stated where the components for their shoes labeled "Made In USA of Imported Materials" come from, but you seem to agree with our conjecture that it is indeed China.
And even if the 70% domestic standard is applied, is that 70% by weight, 70% by volume, 70% by dollar value, or some other measure? If it is 70% by dollar value, then it's quite likely that the huge disparity between labor costs in U.S. and China might new balance 990 mean that 95% of the physical product is assembled in China. Let's be honest about it& It's not that China (or any other country) has better nylon, polyester, rubber, thread or glue than we do in the U.S., it's the availability of cheap labor. It makes sense to us that they would want to assemble their products to the greatest extent possible, outside the U.S. Why else would they affix a size label to the shoe which does not show the country of origin, only to add a sticker [img]https://www.hotel-provincia.com/images/shoes/new balance 990-959iqq.jpg[/img] later on, which says "Made In USA of Imported Materials". |
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