The Detroit Pistons may have won the N.B.A. championship last week, thanks to their Motor City moxie, but they couldn't have done it without a contribution from South Korea. How's that? Despite the all-American Spalding name on N.B.A. basketballs, they are made in South Korea. In fact, many products with red- white-and-blue names are manufactured abroad, including Rawlings baseballs (made in Haiti), Bell telephones (Singapore and Taiwan) and the Pontiac LeMans (South Korea).
Now a Maryland-based group called the Made in the USA Foundation plans to compile a list of popular products and their place of manufacture for a forthcoming book...
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