Quote - Yanno, the day I can choose which country the components in the electronics I buy come from, I'll give ya a call.

You can do it, the country of origen is by itself not important, but the vender, the company that made them and the specifications you can choose and must do it. If you want a component made, for example in Japan, you enter in contact with NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi..., or any vendor and ask "do you have the component xxxx and it must be made in Japan ?" If yes and the price is satisfactory you can purchase from him, if not you go to other vendor.

You not only select the component specifications, you also select the fabricant and the quality level that can be from military grade to crap level. Probably who is selling military grade components will not have crap grade, so if you want crap you must go to other vendor.

The story doesn't end here, once ou selected the vendor and component you purchase a batch of them. When you receive the batch you test it. The test can be one by one or by sampling, The test can be very simple or very intensive depending on your product and quality level of your product. If the components passed the test you use them in your product. If the components failed the test, you reject the batch and send it back to the vendor.

 

Of course, you can do nothing of this and use counterfeit or stolen components and give no satisfaction and return to your customers. When the sitaution gets ugly you only disappear and later appear again with another name.

Stupidity also evolves!