I received this email earlier today from Chance.  It's making the rounds and likely some of you have already seen it. Given our current financial condition as a nation, we all ought to try and support America first.  One way we can do this is to buy American made products.  Since many items don't list the country where the product originated  we don't always know what country we're investing our money in.  Now we can tell at a glance, simply by reading the barcode.

00 - 09 … USA & CANADA
30 - 37 … FRANCE
40 - 44 … GERMANY
47 ... Taiwan
49 … JAPAN
50… UK
690-692 … China