US manufacturing (was OT: Incandescent lamps get a reprieve, possiblly) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Apr 2011

...
  > I
can't find anyone in the US that actually MAKES, not sells USB cables,
> all the companies source them in from China, so I buy those direct. 
  Unfortunately it seems most of the UK
manufacturing companies have gone
 bust, and the few who are left aren't really interested in small-scale
 work unless you're willing to pay well over the market rate...   Same here. 
The once-mighty American manufacturing industry is all 
but dead.  It's pretty sad.  Now China owns our asses. 
As to USB connectors.... I'm 99% sure that Keystone and Switchcraft
are still made in the USA. A wide variety of more industrial (not
so much consumer) plugs and jacks are still made in the USA by other
respected names, too.

Tim.