Produced my Market World, LC, USA Cowboy, P.O. Box 75074, Wichita, KS 67275.  Phone (316) 264-0900  Manufacturers of USA cowboy boots may participate in submissions of boots for certification as well as article in text, audio, and video formats. Directory features support for domestic and export marketing of boots with Certificate of Origin and Certification of Content. DISPLAY: Enlarge window to 100%.  

 

USA Cowboy Boot Certified directory represents builders of cowboy boots and cowboy styled work boots that have at a minimum of sixty percent USA content value.  The directory / magazine catalogs cowboy boots allowing the generation of a certificate of content as well as a certificate of origin for use in domestic and export sales and marketing.  The directory will be made without fee for download by customers searching for authentic USA cowboy boots.   The directory is available by producers of boots as well as a master directory incorporating all qualified boots.   All boot manufacturers are encouraged to contribute to the directory without fee.

Built in USA?   Assembled in China?   Building a boot in USA could have less USA value content than one built in another country.   A cowboy boot assembled in China could have more USA content in value than one assembled in the USA.  Many believe that “built in America” implies the full value of the boot is made in the USA. Many companies use the term "built" which implies all components are both made from products and labor within the USA.   Assembled is the process of combining components of the product that may or may not have been of USA origin.  This may be true in many cases.  Most of the boot could be “built in America” that is, made of many components that are assembled within the final product.   However, these parts could be assembled in Japan and still have USA value of the making of the boot at over 90 percent.

 

The USA Cowboy Boot Certified is a directory of boots that qualify as to having significant USA value no matter where the boot is finally built.  The directory is to remove the confusion as to the percentage of USA value is in a boot. This determining factor of the value of USA content is really determined by the total labor cost and the value of the materials created by employment of USA personnel that spend the benefits of income within the USA or upon goods exported from the USA that has significant USA made value.

A major qualification is the profit value that gained to a USA company that is subject to USA laws and taxation, whether it is at the corporate level or as income to individual workers.  A foreign company may have business designs in the USA that also will benefit the taxing authority (federal, state, or local).   A Brazilian company may have a factory in the USA, in which the boot manufacturing components are made of 20% outside of USA, 60% USA domestic, and 20% profit of which is returned to Brazil.   Because this boot maker has met the minimum standards of inclusion in the directory (60%) that directly benefits the business of individuals within the USA or under taxation jurisdiction, this specific boot could be listed.

Two formulas may be used to determine the regional value of the content of any boot, available to boot production companies.   This is used to certify the percentage value of the boot in USA content.   It is also used to create a Certificate of Origin, that may be required by many countries, for the management of custom duties.

The USA Cowboy Boot Certified is used by consumers of cowboy boots within the USA and for added value, internationally, for those selling cowboy boots to businesses and individuals in other countries.   Any cowboy boot maker or cowboy styled work boots in the USA may have all boots listed in the directory without fee.   They should contact the USA Cowboy Editor for instructions for inclusion of their boot product.