Lumber Liquidators Liquidates Formaldehyde-Laced CHINESE Laminate Flooring from Inventories According to Forbes, Lumber Liquidators sources almost half of its laminates from China. It also saw these laminates make up 13% of its sales in 2014. A test of 3,400 laminate floors from the company showed that 97% contained levels of formaldehyde that were considered safe.

ISIS Destroys Tons of "Made-in-USA" Chicken Destined for Refugee Camps Justifying its action, Isis said it did so because the chicken was "Made in USA". The jihadist group further revealed that the chicken were "slaughtered unlawfully", hence, the boxes containing the meat were set on fire.

Joe Piscopo Sounds Off; "We Need Candidates Who Support American Manufacturing" Let’s get back to basics. Made in USA products, fair trade and buying American. Not only will our economy recover, but so will our sense of patriotism.

Crayons, Barb Wire, Phillips Head Screws and More; Products You Can Thank AMERICANS for Inventing Things you may take for granted, but it was AMERICAN ingenuity that gave the world a better place to live.

West Coast Port Strike Has Retailers Taking a Hard Look at Domestic Suppliers According to a new study by consulting firm BDO, although the cost of manufacturing remains lower in overseas regions such as Asia, 43 percent of retail chief financial officers said that North America provides the most attractive sourcing opportunities for 2015.

Good News: Clothing Made-in-USA Again? Bad News: No Jobs, Made by Robots ? The manufacturing of sewn products has been slow to automate because, unlike metal or wood, fabric is flexible. But researchers have developed software that can locate individual threads inside the fabric and track their positions like a grid pattern. “That’s how we know where the fabric is,” said SoftWear CEO K.P. Reddy. "It might flex. It might bend. It might fold. We still know where those intersections of those threads are and are able to track it.”

In Search of the Made-in-USA Knock-Offs “Manufacturing as a word is diluted, “ said Rainville. “We have competition that say they have a couple products that say made in America and they use that to make people believe that perhaps all of their product is”. However, their products are made everywhere but. “Online is a little more sketchy because online retailers don't really pay much attention to the rules”.

Demand for Locally Grown Food on the Rise or Has it Peaked? There could be some stagnation in the number of new people buying local food. Or as the USDA puts it, "a plateau in consumer demand for local food." Rising demand in the last several years has lead to the opening of many new markets. There were 8,268 farmers' markets operating in 2014, up 180 percent since 2006.

Chinese Companies Building Factories in the U.S. so They Can Claim "Made-in-USA" Later this year along the banks of the James River outside Richmond, Virginia, a paper products maker based in northeastern China will begin construction on a new U.S. manufacturing plant. The factory will churn the region's straw and corn stalks into household products including napkins, tissue and organic fertilizer—all marked "Made in the USA."