It can be confusing these days, just like with "American made cars". For example, Rivendell makes their custom lugged steel bikes here in CA, using steel tubing made in Japan, i believe. Their lugged stock frames are now mostly completely made in Taiwan, then the frames are shipped to CA where Riv completes assembling the bikes. "Some" of Riv's frames are still being made in Japan, some still being made by Waterford in the US (not sure where the tubing is made on those though- Reynolds?). Brain hurting!