"The conditions are extremely, extremely nice," Correa says. "Especially in this state of Chihuahua."
Gearing Up
According to the tag, the jacket is made in China. Bob Alison, a New England sales representative for Gear, says most company products are produced overseas.
"Harvard" items probably do not get the University name on them, he says, until arrival in company headquarters in Lenexa, KS, where garments are given lettering.
One way of knowing where a garment comes from is by using an "RN" tracking number given by the Federal Trade Commission, according to Thomas J. Wheatley, a spokesperson for the National Labor Committee, a non-profit working in support of human and worker rights, primarily in Central America.
This number is supposed to reveal the place of manufacture, he says, but many companies use their RN number to indicate some address in the U.S. where the goods pass through.
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