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Stanley is a worldwide company with factories and contacts in most industrialized countries. I've visited the Stanley booth at a hardware shown at Cologne, Germany, and Stanley had simple combination wrenches on display from 3 or 4 European countries. This was not a mixture so the buyer could choose the country he prefered, but, one size would be made in Germany, the next size in Austria, then Spain, etc., etc. You were to buy the Stanley brand and Stanley would decide where in the world it should be made. Stanley Proto used to ship Asian forgings of combination wrenches to Mexico for finishing. Where the finished tools ended up after that I do not know. Some Williams tools were made in Mexico. Some Challenger tools were made in Japan. The list is endless and it changes daily. The bottom line is that Stanley imports some of the tools it sells. After Stanley was caught by the U.S. government for misleading advertising and package labeling, I believe Stanley has become more careful in identifying the country of origin but they certainly played games in the past. However, I believe it is misleading to state that Proto, for example, is imported as a reader questions. Most or at least many Proto tools have been made until recently in a state of the art factory in the US. I believe this is still true today. Others, like Danaher, who supplies many but not all Craftsman tools, seems to not mix U.S. made tools with those they import. They used to import a few Japanese adjustable wrenches for their defunct EASCO range, but, this has possibly ended. At least until recently, Danaher (Allen, Armstrong, K-D) has been made in USA. Wright tools seems to be strictly U.S. made. Possibly Cooper is the same. Channelock's pliers are probably made in U.S.A. but their adjustable wrenches are from Spain. Klein seems to stay away from imports. S-K sometimes tries to sell tools from their parent, Facom of France. CDI torque wrenches are still made, I believe, in the U.S.A. CDI is owned by Snap-On. The above information was current a couple of years ago, but, changes seem to occur daily and it is difficult/impossible for any outsider to know where tools are being made for major U.S. brands.
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