What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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Walter
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Re: What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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Jebem wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:39 am
zeno333 wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:31 am
I am assuming they are made in Switzerland, but I do not see a "made in" anywhere on the outside or in any info received ..maybe it says "made in..." on the inside somewhere I do not know.
That is odd.
Most countries proudly put stickers showing its origins.
Probably there is a law in Switzerland allowing some products to be marketed with a more relaxed requisites.
Optimist! Otherwise this would be 'experimental business law 101'. Experiments in this area may become very expensive (as pointed out earlier: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=251&start=20#p3391)
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Re: What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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Just looked at a website based on USA law (after all, they own the internet, or so many of them would have us believe), and it looks like a country of origin sticker isn't needed for imports that are for personal use.

https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail ... to-the-u.s.

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(I am also not a lawyer and find these abbreviations so irritating that I took this opportunity to make a passive aggressive point)

Edited to add: all in good humour, of course! I hope no-one gets offended :)
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Re: What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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Walter wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:49 am
Jebem wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 8:39 am
zeno333 wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:31 am
I am assuming they are made in Switzerland, but I do not see a "made in" anywhere on the outside or in any info received ..maybe it says "made in..." on the inside somewhere I do not know.
That is odd.
Most countries proudly put stickers showing its origins.
Probably there is a law in Switzerland allowing some products to be marketed with a more relaxed requisites.
Optimist! Otherwise this would be 'experimental business law 101'. Experiments in this area may become very expensive (as pointed out earlier: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=251&start=20#p3391)
From Wikipedia:

"Accordingly, there are two conditions that must be fulfilled for goods to be legally labelled as being of Swiss origin:

- The Swiss portion of the production cost must be at least 50 percent (until 1 January 2017, then 60 percent[2]).
- The most important part of the manufacturing process must have taken place in Switzerland."

Apparently the DM42 can not use a Made in Switzerland sticker because most if its production happens outside Switzerland.
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Re: What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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zeno333 wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:22 am
Thanks for the link at... another finding: https://firmenbuch.kompany.at/p/ch/02040544108
from an earlier post: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=351#p4355
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Re: What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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Wow, from the picture here.. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=251&start=20#p3391 it looks like they are assembled in his apartment!!! Talk about a cottage industry!!! Wow...
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Re: What city or town is the DM-42 made??

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zeno333 wrote:
Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:39 am
Wow, from the picture here.. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=251&start=20#p3391 it looks like they are assembled in his apartment!!! Talk about a cottage industry!!! Wow...
[rant] Yeah, sometimes it would pay to read a bit before starting a thread. ;) And BTW, the picture is here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=251&start=10#p3372 (proper linking instead of thoughtless copying & pasting is appreciated as well). [/rant]
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