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I'm fine with buying imported tools sometimes. The reason I wrote the post in the first place is that I'm disappointed that the Craftsman brand has been changed. If I had my way, Sears would sell its imported discount line and charge a premium for US made hand tools so I would know that Craftsman=domestic. The problem I'm having now is that the Chinese set I bought earlier this week was $40, and the equivalent SnapOn set is >$200. I checked SK, Mac, Armstrong, and Matco and the equivalent sets are either (1) fairly expensive eg $150-200 *and* imported, or (2) insanely expensive and domestic. I'm fine paying more for domestic, even 2x, but it seems that's not possible. Another issue is that it's often hard to tell where things are really made. For example, I had to dig to learn that the SK set is imported. I always went to Sears because the tools were good and domestic and fairly priced. I'll bet they lose a significant number of Craftsman customers now.