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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;daveydempsey, post: 2465566, member: 22&quot;]Mikey,</p><p>That is a USA thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP is posting from the UK</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another version from the UK</p><p><br /></p><p>British trade policy in the days when we&nbsp; had an Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Goods produced within the Imperial territories were marked as &#039;Empire made&#039;, to distinguish them from &#039;Foreign&#039; goods.</p><p><br /></p><p>It had nothing to do specifically with Germany, but resulted from a policy known as &#039;Imperial preference&#039;. This continued in a different form during the Commonwealth years, but was brought to an abrupt halt when we joined the EU in 1973.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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