FOXNews.com: MADE IN THE USA:Report: Holiday Shoppers Prefer American-Made Gifts

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MADE IN THE USA:Report: Holiday Shoppers Prefer American-Made Gifts Dec 25th 2012, 07:18 This transcript is automatically generated So this Christmas don't be surprised if you happen to -- more than a few gifts with the words made in America on the inside online retailer selling only American made goods. Are more popular than ever and this holiday season they are seeing sales -- William La Jeunesse has this story for us live from Los Angeles. So William will we be seeing more our red white and blue then reading green tonight. Not yet have there things are looking up in the US but we're not going to replace all those low skilled manufacturing jobs that went to China right away. But there are a lot of these sites dozens of shopping sites dedicated products specifically. Made an assembled in the US and it's easy to measure there increase in sales and they are finding that. Americans are willing to pay a little more for US products one of those sizes. Made in the USA. Forever dot com. His numbers have doubled year over year its -- has some buyers want better quality goods others understand that buying more US made products. Does create demand at least two more US. Manufacturing jobs the so called multiplier affect. We've more than doubled in the past share and it's growing -- crazy people are really starting to wake up to this meeting USA -- You know we bought more of what we made here in our nation we put a lot of people to work if those people paying taxes. So his number one best seller is American jeans but you can also buy toys electronics. Lot of clothing garden tools -- tools that kind of thing Heather. So is this is a fleeting thing because of the recession and and and of course of political Redick -- rhetoric every hearing -- to buy American. Yeah that's a little bit of of the consultants think that you know we lost a lot of manufacturing jobs to China were of course wages are C 300 dollars a month. Compared to a low skilled manufacturing job in the US where that -- gonna pay. 2000 dollars a month in all likelihood. However wages in China are expected to increase by up to 30%. By 2015 that's gonna eliminate some of their competitive advantage. Also in some businesses like furniture fabricated metals plastics some electronics. Experts think that the US gonna see some -- shoring maybe three billion dollars worth of manufacturing -- jobs coming back to the US. But in the global economy you know we are just completing -- China but Vietnam in Mexico. And we still have an edge in highly skilled manufacturing like aerospace and heavy equipment but do not expect that we're gonna see a return to say fifty years ago. When 28% of our jobs in the US for manufacturing jobs compared to just. 8% today. But things are looking up and if we start thinking this way. That could lead to more of us thinking hey you know if there is a by USA store. For Christmas you'd be more inclined to go in that I think. Rather than just online sales that are -- agreed good way -- think there thank you very much we appreciate it like much that's going live for us.

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