Country of origin required?

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Bob W

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Hello, quick question regarding tang stamps. My F-I-L has a small private museum where he peddles crap knives to Boy Scouts (he should be ashamed). Anyway, his stock is mostly Fury knives from China. But he also has a large supply of multi-colored wood handled knives from Pakistan that are completely unmarked.

Don't imported knives have to be marked with the country of origin? If so, can anyone point me to some official information?

Interestingly, the Pakistan knives are imported by a so-called knife maker from Montana. I've seen one of the allegedly "handmade" knives, and I'm sure it's a Pakistani blade and handle snapped together (poorly, I might add) with a bit of leather glued on and some leather fringe tied on (the "handmade" portion I bet). The blade of the "handmade" knife is also completely unmarked. I don't know the "maker's" name, but does the situation sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks,
Bob
 
Bob W said:
Hello, quick question regarding tang stamps. My F-I-L has a small private museum where he peddles crap knives to Boy Scouts (he should be ashamed). Anyway, his stock is mostly Fury knives from China. But he also has a large supply of multi-colored wood handled knives from Pakistan that are completely unmarked.

Don't imported knives have to be marked with the country of origin? If so, can anyone point me to some official information?

Interestingly, the Pakistan knives are imported by a so-called knife maker from Montana. I've seen one of the allegedly "handmade" knives, and I'm sure it's a Pakistani blade and handle snapped together (poorly, I might add) with a bit of leather glued on and some leather fringe tied on (the "handmade" portion I bet). The blade of the "handmade" knife is also completely unmarked. I don't know the "maker's" name, but does the situation sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks,
Bob
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Don't mean to hijack the thread but these sound incredibly crappy. Does anyone actually buy them?
 
Apparantly yes. Kids mostly. Don't know if he's sold any of the "handmade" ones, but the Chinese Fury knives go fast.

From my brief inspection, the unmarked Pakistan knives are fit OK - the "knifemaker" finishes them a little before distributing them - but the steel feels like recycled beer cans.

I'm going to hijack my own thread now. Where's an online source for Fury and Pakistani knives? Just to price check; I don't want one. :grumpy:

-Bob
 
Country of origin marking is required for import of goods and is supposed to remain on the product or the packaging until sale. Nothing requires the product itself to marked in a permanent manner. This in pretty universal around the world and has been for about 100 years.
 
At a recent show, I saw some Smith and Wesson stag handled slipjoints, that were actually very well made, but I laughed at teh country of origin marks, they were just transparent plastic stickers that were stuck on the blade that said "china", they peeled right off without leaving a trace.
 
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