Made in USA Designed and Manufactured in Downers Grove, IL

To claim a product is Made in USA, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) provides guidance. If all the components were manufactured in the United States and all the processing occurred in the United States, then the finished good is deemed Made in USA. For electronics manufacturing, this is difficult to achieve because not all components are made in the United States. Therefore, the FTC provides a fallback position for making an "unqualified claim" that the product is US made.

A product will be considered substantially all made in the United States if:

(1) final assembly or processing of the product occurs in the United States, (2) all significant processing that goes into the product occurs in the United States, and (3) all or virtually all ingredients or components of the product are made and sourced in the United States.

OR

The product was last substantially transformed in the United States and all significant parts or components of the product were last substantially transformed in the United States.

(Note: "substantial transformation" is a U.S. Customs Service term that refers to a manufacturing process that results in a new and different article of commerce, having a new name, character and use that is different from that which existed prior to the processing)

At the Downers Grove plant, a modern surface mount technology (SMT) process line pastes solder onto blank printed circuit boards (PCBs), places active and passive components onto the pasted PCBs, and then reflows the assembled PCBs through temperature-controlled ovens to create printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs). The PCBAs are then tested and packaged as adapters, or assembled into metal enclosures, tested and packaged as finished devices for storage into a warehouse. Thus, a substantial transformation has occurred at our Downers Grove, IL USA plant.

If the product complies with USMCA rules of origin which are dependent upon the "substantial transformation" doctrine, Contemporary Controls will claim the United States as country of origin (CoO) and make the unqualified claim of Made in USA.

USMCA, CUSMA, T-MEC Compliance

For our customers in Canada and Mexico who want to purchase products from the company that comply with the USMCA, CUSMA, T-MEX rules, our Made in USA products are USMCA, CUSMA, T-MEX compliant. Please request Made in USA when purchasing a product. The subsequent invoice will indicate USMCA, CUSMA, T-MEX compliance.