It's on everything from poisoned baby formula to poisoned dog food. This is a keychain koala, wearing a jacket that bears the legend, "I [heart] Australia." Underneath is the little sticker, "MADE IN CHINA."
Every day on tours of Midtown Manhattan I drive my American-made rickshaw past the Milliners' Synagogue on Sixth Avenue (milliners are hatmakers). The Synagogue is on its last legs; they don't have a minyan to open the day anymore. While passing, I take off my official Central Park Conservancy cap, letting the passengers see the MADE IN CHINA label on the inner brim.
Even this NYC civic association dedicated to local preservation and conservation, in a city of clothing designers, sends off to China for hats rather than have a local company produce them.
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