US exports millions of chopsticks to China

Georgia Chopsticks, based in the southern state of Georgia, is producing two million sets of the traditional eating utensils each day.

It is operating around the clock to keep up with demand and hopes to be exporting 10 million pairs a day by the end of the year, each set complete with a label marked "Made in USA." Amid a shortage of wood in China the abundant poplar and sweet gum trees in Georgia were found to be ideal for chopsticks, producing straight, pliable and light coloured implements.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... hina.html#

Who thought those gum trees were good for something...........

See, I told you America still manufactures. They export I-Pads to us and we send them cheap. wood products. World upside down?

I'm surprised they don't use more plastic washable re-usables. 1 penny each, plus shipping and profit? And they get thrown out?

We can still manufacture competitively if it is automated. And I heard they are moving to robotics on the Ipad manufacturing anyway.