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- <text id=89TT1636>
- <title>
- June 26, 1989: Business Notes:Products
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- PRODUCTS
- Hey, This Apple Pie's an Import
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- <p> The Detroit Pistons may have won the N.B.A. championship last
- week, thanks to their Motor City moxie, but they couldn't have done
- it without a contribution from South Korea. How's that? Despite
- the all-American Spalding name on N.B.A. basketballs, they are made
- in South Korea. In fact, many products with red-white-and-blue
- names are manufactured abroad, including Rawlings baseballs (made
- in Haiti), Bell telephones (Singapore and Taiwan) and the Pontiac
- LeMans (South Korea).
- </p>
- <p> Now a Maryland-based group called the Made in the USA
- Foundation plans to compile a list of popular products and their
- place of manufacture for a forthcoming book titled Made in the USA:
- A Catalog of the Best American Products. Joel Joseph, the group's
- founder, plans to contrast such U.S.-made goods as Levi's and
- Macintosh computers with ringers that include Perry Ellis "America
- Series" shirts (made in Mauritius) and Rockport shoes (Portugal and
- Taiwan). Joseph is lobbying for legislation that would require
- advertisers to disclose where their products are manufactured.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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