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Find out if items are made in China
I agree with calls for Amazon to state which country products are made in, so we can avoid buying from those places if we so wished (Issue 681, page 7). One site that can help is ProductFrom (www.productfrom.com), which has 120,000 products you can search. The results tell you where each item was made.
I use it by clicking the top-right Search icon then typing a brand name. It’ll suggest lots of results as you type. Search for ‘Huawei’, for example, and you’ll see 21 items listed, while Lenovo produces 247 (see screenshot).
Those are both Chinese firms, but it also lists products from non-Chinese firms that outsource their manufacturing to China. It finds 501 by Apple
