Re: Is anything still made in the USA???

Posted by bad mechanic on January 26, 2005 at 12:08:49 from (206.127.117.16):

In Reply to: Re: Is anything still made in the USA??? posted by Bob - MI on January 26, 2005 at 11:43:54:

From experience, 7 years ago I "had" a coat company. We built started in our basement. After a couple of months moved to a shop. We focused on ranch and work coats. After one year we had 9 sewers. We sold primarily to embroidery shops. Started in MT and branched out to surrounding states. Our coats durability and styles were of top quality. After 5 years of busting A$$ and giving all we had, we had to give it up, the local taxes were killers, our wholesale prices could not be competitive. The shops could buy off shore coats for what we had in ours. There was no way to survive. I guess one must give in and go with the flow, I hate that but after trying to push American made and listening to the buyers say, "I have no choice but to buy from the other market" we shut down our business and are still picking up the pieces. I guess they call it progress. Now after knowing what I know about the rag business I realize all of them are from out of the country. God Bless America. We let ourselves down.

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