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Location of manufacture is not, in and of itself, a determining factor of quality. It may be a preference and depending upon the manufacturer's quality requirements, could be a factor, just the location is not.
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I don’t know about that. Maybe you are right, but at the same time I trust more stuff that are made in USA because there is more regulations and control over qualities than in some countries. Even here in Canada, we don’t have the same control and sometimes I buy things that does not work well and it is so hard to be reimburse or even get good service. I am talking here about some bad experiences with Canadian compagnies, product and store.
You are mixing two different things. Government regulations and manufacturing practices. Sometimes there is some overlap in terms of government regulations setting mandatory minimum practices, but ultimately, it comes down to the company and what it requires of its own manufacturing and its partners. Look at Apple. Made in Chine by Foxconn, Pegatron and others with parts sourced from all over the world, and yet it manufactures highly complex products with some of the tightest manufacturing tolerances by anyone. This comes up with Nikon too with people saying they don't want to buy anything made by Nikon in Taiwan as opposed to Japan because they think Japan must be better. That is not necessarily true. If Nikon provides the same level of training, manufacturing equipment, supervision and quality control, it does not matter what country the product is manufactured in. Where companies get into trouble, is when they go to a country with cheaper labor to save money and then save even more money by failing to provide and require the same level of training, manufacturing equipment, supervision and quality control they do somewhere else.
