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Honestly, kind of surprised the US is even on that list. For most things better quality is usually found elsewhere.
As someone living in the US, I almost always think products “Made in the USA” are pretty high quality. Trouble is almost nothing is made in the USA because almost everything is imported, largely from China or SE Asia.
It’s a common perception for sure, although I have to admit when I do find things that are actually “made in USA” I also find I am often disappointed by their quality. Tools for example, Made in USA often seems to reflect a lot of shitty cut corners and weak crappy materials. There’s some good stuff too of course but it’s certainly not a guarantee and I wouldn’t even say it’s the majority.
Made in Japan or Made In Germany is usually a good bet but you’ll pay a steep premium, meanwhile there are honestly some exceptionally well made and affordable tools coming out of China, you just have to know what specifically you’re buying because of course there is also a lot of absolute crap.
The American companies obsessed with cutting costs generally don’t manufacture in the US any more. Potential exception for the automobile industry, but these cars aren’t really exported much to the rest of the world any more.
Also worth noting that this is based on data from 2017. I would be happy to buy a pair of jeans made in America back then. Now, not so much.
They’ve got good guitars
Good cheese too (the ones that are actually cheese).
Despite the crap labour and business practices, the US is an high wage economy. For non perishable goods, companies either manage to compete on quality or they sink because they can’t compete on price.
Not just surprising, outright implausible
- This chart is 8 years old.
Yeah, anyone who dealt with German products outside of a few selected brands knows that quality had been nosediving for the past decade.
Edit: also just checked. The statistic is provided by “Statista” who basically just scam people by aggregating statistics they take from other sources and then don’t disclose their sources unless you pay extra. Furthermore the statistic wasn’t repeated ever since, which makes it even more dubious as it should be trivial for a data aggregator to update such an index, unless the method and data are of low quality.
Wtf how Scandinavia and Japan are not on top?
Funny thing about Germany, after all these years, quality differs a lot between west and former ussr ghetto. Knowing this saves lots of cash.
Unless the east German product was made in the GDR, then it will probably outlive you. I have a table made in 60s east Germany and it’s still in impeccable shape and will probably last longer than me
Damn these translated abbriviations are tough. For me they were BRD and DDR
dance dance revolution?
wartburg reference?
Might be due to cars. Japan used to make affordable cars and that kinda painted expectations on some markets. Also correlates to Germany being high up, everyone knows German cars are good.
Funny that the EU is scores higher than 26 of its member states.
Yeah, it could be made in Germany or in Bulgaria (no offense).
GERMAN ENGINEERING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD
good luck finding anything made in germany in germany though xD
From the stuff I’ve looked at, it’s often nonsensical. Doing stuff in unconventional ways for little apparent reason. Like, in BMWs example, you have to use a lift or jack up the car level to just check the transmission fluid; or the mostly-plastic cooling system which fails and results in the engine being ruined often. I’ve seen other weird engineering choices in electronics too (have done contract work for a German company).
In my 335i the front differential goes THROUGH the oil pan
Replacing the oil pan gasket required me to drop the entire subframe of the car
And ya the water pump routinely goes every like 80000km. Designed to fail.
I don’t really trust in the “made in (country of ur choosing)” label. Lots of stuff in that product is still made in china 😕 For example with quick googling i found out there are no legal requirements for a product to be allowed to have Made in Germany label and even the guideline is only 45% of the products value added there or the product being assembled there.
It just feels like a big scam to me personally.
I can’t even remember the last time I saw anything that said “Made in Germany”, apart from beer. I guess I’m not in the market for tanks or BMWs, but still
Home appliances, pharmaceuticals and quite a few things related to engineering really, be that cars parts or something else entirely line tools or screws.
But the most stuff is B2B so you don’t get into contact much
I got some Adidas stuff but those are definitely made somewhere in SE Asia. I thought Sennheiser might be one, but looks like their main factory is in Ireland, of all places.
My vacuum cleaner is made in Germany. Super happy with it after one year. I also have a pretty sturdy German kitchen knife.
Pretty sure some of my power tools are also German, but that’s bought more on the basis of what I could find in flea markets than where it was produced.
Don’t know what exactly the survey asked, but “quality” wasn’t the only consideration.
“Quality, security standards, value for money, uniqueness, design, advanced technology, authenticity, sustainability, fair production, status symbol” https://www.statista.com/page/Made-In-Country-Index
Was wondering why the USA was so high.
“2017”
Counterpoint: Deutsche Bahn AG
As a Canadian I used to think oh good at least that’s somewhat local when I saw the “made in USA” label. Now I’m like flip this upside down and replace on shelf so the next person doesn’t waste their time
