I’m not sure the origin of most of my garden tools as they are mostly 10+ years old, but I’m making sure to look for the Made in the USA label. I have purchased some assembled here or made in Taiwan, etc but zero made in China products, a lot of companies are sneaky about with “Headquarters in US” with a tiny Made in China in the corner. Taking back America one hoe at a time.
Funny you should mention Chinese made tools. This morning I was on a cooking forum and someone posted about pans on sale at Costco. While most people praised the sale one person mentioned that they were made in China, and the insults started. Most wanted to know what the big deal was. Since it was a cooking forum I mentioned that some people objected to buying items made in sweat shops or with slave labor and controlled by a government that jails anyone who complains. Kind of like people who prefer free range chicken, only with humans. For that I was told that I had better stop buying US meat, so I said that there are plenty of people who do just that because they feel that eating meat is cruel but there are plenty of others who don’t care about the cruelty as long as they can have a good steak, very similar to people willing to overlook the cruelty suffered upon the people making the pans as long as they can save a couple of dollars. Nobody jumped in to defend me but I did get a lot of likes for my comments. That tells me that the silent majority is afraid of being bullied.