This past Christmas I bought a bunch of wrapping paper and gift bags from the 99 Cent store in my area and to my shock I looked at the candy canes and chocolate Santas on their shelves and they were made mostly in China and Mexico. Wherever I buy food I always check the labels to see where it was made and packaged and if it’s from China or some other Asian or Latin American country I won’t buy it.
Every product I buy takes a few moments of my life away because I read labels. If it is a food, I look to make sure there is no soybean oil in it... or MSG... though they now just call MSG a variety of innocuous sounding names like “yeast extract”.
Everything from socks to appliances... I look for a manufacturer that is not China. It costs me a little more... but I would rather support an American business providing jobs to American families.