It's not just "Made in Germany" labels that are confusing, so are "Made in America," and keep in mind this is years after the US enacted rules on how that label could be applied:
‘Made in America’ rules are complex, confusing
Special guidelines for manhole covers, but hairnets get a free pass
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35821593/ns/today-today_news/t/made-america-rules-are-complex-confusing/
More than a decade a ago, I wrote an article on this topic when lots of folks out here in rural PA had "Buy American" bumper stickers.
What they didn't realize and what my article exposed is that a lot of the items they were buying that they thought were "Made in America," including their cars, were either made elsewhere or contained more foreign parts than American-made parts.
Then the federal government came out with the "Made in USA" standard, but manufacturers found loopholes for getting around them.
For example, an automaker could count a steering column as made in America which had more than 50% foreign made parts inside because the housing itself was made in America and constituted a larger portion of the whole unit.
It's slimy, it's deceptive, it's business.
But as I've said before, we hold Zeiss to a higher standard then we do Chinese or even American manufacturers. We expect confusing and misleading terminology from other county's products, but from "the best" "Made in Germany" we expect nothing less than full disclosure.
That's the issue here. Not whether the bins are good or not. Of course, they're good, they're Zeiss. They might not be your choice because of personal preferences, but their "German quality" is not in question, however, where they are manufactured apparently is.
Brock
