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BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesPRODUCTSHey, This Apple Pie's an Import
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).
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.