The FCC's definition of "produced in a foreign country" doesn't just mean final assembly. It covers "any major stage of the process through which the device is made, including manufacturing, assembly, design, and development." So a router designed in California but assembled in Vietnam is covered. A router with a PCB fabricated in Taiwan for a US company is covered. The brand's country of origin doesn't matter. This creates an obvious problem: there are almost certainly zero consumer routers that would pass this test. The entire industry has been offshored for decades. Chips come from Taiwan a
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