Originally Posted by
2wdMod
What they SHOULD be saying is ASSEMBLED in the usa made from globaly sourced components.I do beleive novak lost a lawsuit in california over that very statement..as to just HOW globally sourced the components are that is for novak to know and us to speculate upon.
I live in Michigan, and we can tell you from the decline in our statewide economy that American owned, and assembled is much different than american MADE all together..I beleive the term with in the industry for out sourcing is "farming out"..A good example of "farming out" and its effect on the RC industry would be Associated.Associated was an american made, american owned company..They started outsourcing their parts and now a company that they outsourced a majority of their components to in the past actually OWNS them now..Thunder Tiger.
I believe that you are incorrect. I have commented on this many times, but here goes again:
We were not involved in a lawsuit---@5 companies in the industry were sent warning letters by a CA law firm. If you manufacture in California, or even ship/sell products into CA, you cannot claim "Made in the USA" unless each and every component, down to a .001 cent resistor is made in the USA.
So even companies, such as Novak, manufacturing here for 33 years cannot advertise "Made in the USA". Therefore, we adopted the "Designed, assembled and tested by Novak in Irvine, Calif., using globally sourced components." A similar disclaimer is probably used by everyone by now.