Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "Product of USA"

Re:Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "... by pdonis on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:55PM (#30725369)

> imported as a sapling, planted in the USA for 20 years, then milled in the USA, then worked into a table by USA craftsmen

But that's not a good analogy to what is being complained of in this case. What is being complained of in this case would be more analogous to a tree that was raised from sapling on in a foreign country, cut down, milled, and worked into pieces of a table in that foreign country, then a US company imported the pieces of the table, assembled them into a table, and labeled it "Product of the USA". Still ok to you?

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Re:Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "... by stickfigure on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:03PM (#30725470)

Parent's point is that it's a spectrum. What if the log was imported but it was milled and worked into a table in the US? What if it came in as milled lumber but was cut+worked into a table in the US? "Made in the USA" is fuzzy.

Huber banjos are "hand crafted in Tennessee" but the mahogany sure didn't grow there (or anywhere else in the USA).

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Re:Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "... by mc32 on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:04PM (#30725498)

Sounds like “assembled in… from foreign components” or in this case “butchered in… from foreign cattle”

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Re:Court affirms imported beef still allowed to be labeled "... by ynks366 on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:05PM (#30730562)

I own a box fan that is labeled "Made in the USA from imported parts". I guess it was cheaper to ship flat

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