5/19/2023 0 Comments Black elmer fudd![]() ![]() I choose not to wear any type of shorts though because I don’t like ‘showing off ‘my metallic leg rods …just too many weird comments from the ‘wokesters’ out there. and as for the rest of you !…You phunnie too! Thank you for the chuckles! I own most of the crap in that picture also (especially the NB’s, a couple of pairs) they are the only sneaker’s (does anybody still call them sneakers besides me anymore?) or are they ‘performance shoes’ or Training whatever’s? that don’t get ripped up by my metal feet. New Balance does this for all the brands they own. None of the component parts of New Balance shoes are 100% USA made. New Balance advertises itself as “Made In the USA”, but in reality, most of New Balance’s production comes from (primarily) China but also other parts of Asia, including Indonesia and Vietnam. So there are a lot of their shoes also made in those places as well. New Balance has expanded its production capacity in recent years to include shoes made in Vietnam and other Asian countries. That 4 million pairs represents less than 1/6th of their US market shoes product under the New Balance brand, everything else was made 100% in China or elsewhere and not in the USA. They still maintain a manufacturing presence in the US but its more of assembly and this is about 4 million pairs of shoes in the US market annually, when in reality all the materials were made in China and the shoes mostly manufactured there and the final assembly done in the US. This derived from a statement New balance made and was taken out of context, the New Balance 70% means is where the domestic value is 70% they label them Made In USA (even in foreign countries) even though they were not really 100% made in USA (another loop hole quirk in the made in usa laws thing for the US market). Some sources have claimed that 70% of New Balance production is made in USA, this is not true. When they first started business for shoes in the US market they were all made in the USA, but not any more really. ![]() New Balance shoes are made, primarily, in China even though they have manufacturing presence in the USA and UK (and Ireland) and China.
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