{"id":15195,"date":"2017-03-29T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15195"},"modified":"2017-03-29T08:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:19:12","slug":"made-in-germany-labels-were-meant-to-encourage-people-to-buy-domestic-it-did-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/made-in-germany-labels-were-meant-to-encourage-people-to-buy-domestic-it-did-the-opposite\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMade In Germany\u201d Labels Were Meant To Encourage People To Buy Domestic. It Did The Opposite."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/032917_1217_MadeInGerma1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Klaus Ulrich looked into the history of &#8220;Made in Germany&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1887 the British passed the Merchandise Marks Act which required foreigners to label their products as having been made in a foreign country.<\/li>\n<li>This was done because of a perception that Germany profited by selling cheap knock-offs of British wares.<\/li>\n<li>The hope was that by labelling products as foreign, British consumers would buy local and boost local industry.<\/li>\n<li>It backfired. The &#8220;Made in Germany&#8221; tag came to signify quality, and boosted demand for German manufacturing.<\/li>\n<li>German cars and heavy machinery continue to benefit from an association between German engineering and quality to this day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/125-years-of-made-in-germany\/a-16188583\">DW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/todayilearned\/comments\/4xppfb\/til_made_in_germany_was_introduced_by_britain_to\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Klaus Ulrich looked into the history of &#8220;Made in Germany&#8221;: In 1887 the British passed the Merchandise Marks Act which required foreigners to label their products as having been made in a foreign country. This was done because of a perception that Germany profited by selling cheap knock-offs of British wares. The hope was that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/032917_1217_MadeInGerma1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15198,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions\/15198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}