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If that's your hill, add Turkey, India and Russia to the list. Brazil we'll know in few days.



What about Brazil? I thought Bolsonaro was out?


I cannot think of any product that I have purchased in the past 50 years that was made in Turkey or India. I once bought a replacement carburetor for a woodchipper, and it was made in Russia, but that's all I've seen from there. These are not exactly manufacturing and exporting powerhouses, it's pretty trivial to avoid them if you want to, compared to China.


If you bought anything pharmaceutical in the last ten years, chances are quite high it was manufactured in India using raw materials from China, and then either the formulation was done in the USA or the packaging was done in the USA to avoid having to label the source:

> (2021) "Here we use previously non-publicly available data to describe levels and trends in the manufacturing locations of the most commonly used prescription pharmaceuticals, off-patent generic drugs, intended to be consumed by Americans. We find that the base ingredients required for the manufacturing of these prescription drugs are overwhelmingly and increasingly manufactured in non-domestic locations, specifically India and China."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8109232/

In turn, the raw materials going into the India pharmaceutical pipeline tend to come from China more than anywhere else:

> "Even as the nation clamoured for banning products and cancelling contracts emanating from China, it’s apparent that, at least in pharma, it may not quite work out as imports from China account for 80% of total raw materials for making medicines, also called APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients)."

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...

However, this doesn't get a lot of corporate media coverage, given that pharma is among the top advertisers.


Turkey has a substantial textile industry. Something like the 5th or 6th largest textile exporter globally, and 3rd largest in the European market. My last set of bath towels were manufactured in Turkey, although my present set are from Pakistan.


The list is actually much longer. Also the should consider to stop buying things made by prison labor.


The list is probably too long to keep up, realistically speaking. But I think any positive change in our spending habits (e.g. cutting off China and Russia) are good




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