USA has exhausted it self allot lately and it's a deteriorating nation financially and economically. It's funny how such an undisputed heavy weight (superpower) of the world has fallen so sharply in the last couple decades, it's reign as a superpower didn't even last 100 years. They were at their prime after WW2 till 90's, that's a good run of almost 50 years as a superpower but there's other powers emerging in tremendous speed with indications that it will surpass US by miles ahead. US now has buried it self under 20 trillion dollar debt, deteriorating infrastructure and slow moving economy.. things are looking bleak for the yanks.
US was one of the most manufacturing and exporting countries of the world till 70's.. By the 80's, greedy corporate yanks seen that they could make much more profit margins if they ship their factories to 3rd world countries which at the time was China. One after another, corporations began closing their factories in the west/US and opening new ones in China for fraction of the production costs. This saw a massive trend all while almost no manufacturing sites existed in US. Allot of people lost their jobs as a result and the economies seen a tremendous shift from manufacturing to service based economies... Almost all essential necessities in every household is now produced in China for the US.
Germany however didn't necessarily follow the US example in terms of operating and manufacturing a brand in their country. I know for a fact that things like Faber Castell company that produces coloured pencils still operate and manufacture pencils in Germany, because unlike the Americans, the Germans have a different philosophy and outlook for operating their companies in the country.. The Germans are not driven by corporate greet, rather they are there to look out for the best interest of their country and provide job opportunities for their fellow Germans. This is an example I hope Turks will follow in the years to come once we also have globally recognised brands, putting national interest first before greed.