There was an AP article somewhere that I can't find that talked about it. Apparently labeling something 'Made In America' doesn't necessarily mean it was made in America - you are allowed to use materials sourced from other places as long as the percentage stays below a certain threshold if the particular material isn't available in the US.

Some testing was done on the fabric in the factory where the hats are manufactured and it passed the 'test', but the bookkeeping was shoddy.

duncang

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4. Made in the U.S.A. but

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 11:58 PM

Jul 2016

dipshit donnie whined about it costing to much, being hard to find someone to make the hats, and can't remember if there was anything else he whined about them. Pretty sure there was. Maybe it needs to be asked again if they are really made here. He will probably come up with some other whiny answer.

PSPS

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5. They can be made in the Northern Mariana Islands and still legally say 'made in usa'

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sun Jul 31, 2016, 12:32 AM

Jul 2016

Unfortunately, their sweatshops are little different than those in China and other countries in the far east.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/18/world/made-usa-hard-labor-pacific-island-special-report-saipan-sweatshops-are-no.html

Mc Mike

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6. Here's a post from Kpete, from March 2:

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sun Jul 31, 2016, 11:37 AM

Jul 2016

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027654496

It was China, at least at that time.

And by the way, before he switched hat production to a company called 'cali-fame', (which uses Hispanic labor and has been caught lying in it's claims that it uses American parts, fabric and materials,) he used another company, Ace Specialties:

"Mr. Trump spent $114,000 to stage an enormous rally in September in Dallas, even though Texas does not hold its primary until March. He spent about $2 million on hats, T-shirts and other merchandise, roughly half of it going to a Louisiana-based company, Ace Specialties, owned by a board member of Mr. Trump’s son’s charitable foundation. During the last half of 2015, Mr. Trump’s campaign spent more on renting stages and audiovisual equipment ($1.4 million) than on voter lists, field offices and collecting signatures to get onto ballots ($1.2 million.)"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/donald-trumps-campaign-billed-as-self-funded-risks-little-of-his-fortune.html#

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