Yep there are a couple of youtube videos comparing us or german brands food made in their own country versus the original ones with very different results/tastes.

We do still manufacture high maintenance women in the U.S. We are willing to export them anywhere across globe.

I just bought a Steiner scope, German glass, assembled in US, I guess that's deficit buffer.

I have a nice Estwing hammer in my toolbox. I think they converted the dollar price straight to pounds.

It's not the sort of tool you want to lose.

My builder friend demolished part of a chimney after dropping his Estwing down it. He's very careful with money.

Russia and Ukraine are tough to compete against in that market!

http://www.clark.com/american-made-in-the-usa

Randolph Engineering sunglasses are the absolute best in my opinion. I've probably got five pair in various cars/modes of transport.

We were over in London and went to a pub on the banks of the Thames, the wife ordered up a bottle of Stella Artois, when she took a sip she spat it out and said "This is cat-a-pis, it is NOT Stella" I had to take it back to the bar and complain, turned out it was brewed in London and not in Leuven.

My telescope is made in the USA, but not that long after me getting it, Meade moved their factory to Mexico and now they are all made there.

I wonder if you can get a real Newkie Brown in Belgium?

From the list in the link only knew Stihl Martin Guitars and Zippo. Never heard of the others but i'm not that good in clothing and furniture.

yep, you can, lunatic brew

Wifey drinks Guinness, Special Export brewed for Belgium @ 8%abv!

We do get various North American beers too, but not seen any red stripe or Bud the local supermarket has a nice range of beers from around the world.

I have some Joseph blonde beer and Achel Trappist bruin, as well as my favourite Kasteel, That will be the most difficult thing once Brexit happens, where will I get Kasteel in the UK it is not exported in any great numbers.

Overall it looks like that there isn't much left to buy.
There was some stuff in the past but either gone or produced in asia (China) now.
Anyway, thx for your posts!
Rends

That's sad. The only products I own on the list is Igloo, My Pillow, and Pyrex.

And big ticket items like military hardware, commercial jets, cars and heavy duty construction equipment.


Not to sound crass but your common every day retail items can be made by a trained monkey or can be made by an automated process (the latter is happening already anyway). To be involved in manufacturing in the developed world will require a high level of technical training and education which to be honest will be beyond the ability and motivation of a high percentage of low wage workers.

Here in Portugal which is a country that imports more than it exports there are also very, very few US made products which can be found here.

The only retail product "Made in USA" which you can find here in Portugal in almost every retail or supermarket is the Tabasco hot sauce.

Personally I'm not a fan of hot sauces but some friends of mine are and they appreciate Tabasco (namely one of my friends in particular).

I also think that an another product that can be found on retail, in this case Jack Daniel's whiskey (which I appreciate) is also made in USA and can also be found here in Portugal.

Would you say Vinho do Porto is the most famous Portuguese export?

Just a few days ago my wife came home with some daily shopping, including a plastic bag containing almonds.

The place of origin is the US - or more precisely, California.

So the last thing I've seen imported as a good (not intellectual property) from the US into this house are almonds.


And somehow this sounds like peanuts.

Yes, I would say so.
Despite there are other Portuguese wines which seem to be catching up with Vinho do Porto or Port like you (or at least the Brits) call it in terms of exports.

A bit OT, non-food:

I wonder, US cars are not selling well here, if you want you can get some but they look hopelessly.. well how to explain? They are not even epensive while offering the same luxury or even better, than european cars.

Please don't kill me but then there are few contemporary US cars that i find interesting, or fascinating. The 'design' is just so bulky, and bullying, often somehow "pompous" ahem (sorry again).
A Jeep? Anytime, but then the design has not changed much, and i'd even prefer one from the 1960ies.
The new Mustang is quite nice, but a bit too expensive (for me). A new Camaro or Corvette? No way.
An older one from the 60ies/70ies? Yes!
Must be my problem with the new design.

Well i can only speak for Jeep. They are about 10.000$ pricier than the same model you can get in the US.
The Jeep Patriot i bought in 2008 had a list price here of 34000�. The same model except the engine (Diesel in Germany/ gas in the US) could be found for 23-25000$ in the US. It's a low price car in the US but was at the same price range as a VW Tiguan here in Germany.

Just on Friday I had to wait as a delivery truck offloaded 6 new F150 pickup trucks at Peerlings Ford dealership in the next village, so we do get a few American imports. Brother in law's brother drives a Dodge Ram pickup, and there are a few Mustangs here too. In the other direction we have a base full of F16 jets I guess those were imported from the US as well