Did Japan rename a town 'Usa' so it could identify its products as 'Made in USA'?
, Japan, whose manufacturing capabilities had been almost completely wiped out by Allied bombing, attempted to rebuild both their economy and their industrial base by producing large quantities of inexpensive goods and exporting them to America and other countries.
This rumor was almost certainly a tongue-in-cheek joke inspired by someone's noticing the coincidence of a town in Japan named Usa .
. . . despite the Japanese flag flying on Fifth Avenue, most consumers, including actual customers, remained unaware that Sony was a Japanese company. Morita [President of Sony Sales] was uneasy about the possibility of a negative reaction, and did what he could to sustain the misapprehension.
A notable exception to the USA's import laws is the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which is allowed to use the"Made in USA" label on their products and export them to the USA duty-free. Legislation was introduced in Congress to close this loophole in 1999, but it died in committee.
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