Where American products are actually made

A company can be American and still sell products made somewhere else. Lodge Cast Iron casts skillets in Tennessee and sells enameled Dutch ovens made in China and Vietnam, and both sit in the same shop under the same name.

This directory records what each manufacturer says about each product, quoted in their own words, with the page and the date it was taken from. Where a maker has not said, that is what gets recorded.

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Start with the category list, then the guides that take a single brand apart.

• American kitchen and cookware manufacturers. Ten manufacturers, what each one states about origin, and where the quote came from.
• American clothing manufacturers. Where the qualifier does the most work, because a garment passes through several countries.
• American sock manufacturers, where the yarn is usually the qualifier.
• American boot and shoe manufacturers.
• American dinnerware, glass and pottery makers.
• American mattress and bedding makers, including one company that argued itself out of the easier claim.
• American tool manufacturers, where one company stops to define what it means by 100%.
• American bicycle makers, including the clearest explanation of a qualified claim on this site, written by a bike company about itself.
• American bag and pack makers.
• American soap and body care makers.
• American candy and chocolate makers, where the cocoa never was American.
• American pet product makers.
• American fishing rod and reel makers, where one company tells you which of its two factories your rod came out of.
• American ski and snowboard makers.
• American furniture makers, with the most specific qualifier on the site.
• American candle makers.
• Where Lodge cast iron is made. Six Lodge products, four different origin labels, every one quoted from Lodge's own product page.
• Where Tervis tumblers are made. Two American flag tumblers on one site. One is made in America and one is made in China.

Browse by shelf

Maps rather than lists: each one shows how the answers are distributed across a group of shelves, and links to the pages that hold the quotes.

• American home goods makers.
• American clothing, shoe and sock makers.
• American food and drink makers.
• American outdoor and sporting goods makers.

Browse by place

• Where these manufacturers actually are. Every state a recorded maker names in its own words.

How origin is recorded

Claims are quoted, never summarised, and attributed to the page they came from and the date it was read. An unqualified claim and a qualified one are stored differently: Lodge says one of its American Dutch ovens is "Proudly made in the USA with imported hardware", and that qualifier is kept.

Nothing here is certified by this site. The maker makes the claim, and this directory records who said it, where, and when.