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. What each one states about origin, and where the quote came from.
American clothing manufacturers. Where the a garment passes through more countries than almost anything else here, and the claims are mostly plain anyway.
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.
American lighting makers, where one company's made-in-USA page carries the word imported.
American toy and puzzle makers, including a company built on American manufacturing that has published the fact it moved.
American coffee roasters and tea growers, where "grown here" and "made here" are two different questions and most pages answer one.
American pantry staple makers, including the salt harvesters whose product and whose place are the same fact.
American jewelry makers, where one company's own FAQ asks the question this site asks and answers it with "many".
American kayak and canoe makers.
American golf club makers, one maker who names the timber as well as the workshop.
American drink makers, where one distillery names the farms that grow its grain as well as the still.
American fitness equipment makers, including a weight maker that explains why owning the factory is the claim.
American paper and stationery makers, where a calendar company names its inks.
American automotive and trailer makers, where one company chose the narrower word for itself and then named the town anyway.
American air treatment makers, with the second claim on this site that cites a federal standard a reader can go and check.
American cleaning and storage makers, whose one entry is a claim about a mine.
American craft supply makers, where the fibre and the manufacture are both named in one sentence.
American supplement makers, where one FAQ answers for one product in one word.
American musical instrument makers, one maker that names two countries and rules out a third.
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.
Where TEKTON tools are made. The company publishes what share of its range is made in each country, and defines its own term.
Where Corelle dinnerware is made. The glass is American, the stoneware and the MilkGlass are made in China.
Where AeroPress coffee makers are made. One product is split between two countries inside the box.
Where PEZ candy is made. Connecticut for two markets, and Hungary for the sugar-free peppermint.
Where Bannor Toys are made. The wood is from Iowa and the silicone is from China, separated by the company itself.
Where Pawleys Island hammock stands are made. One stand is welded here and the other is imported, a sentence apart.

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.

Browse by place

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

Browse by who made it

Who actually made it. The manufacturers here that say they make goods sold under other companies' names, and the two that say they do not.

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.