Analysts are also making the point that Japanese-made components remain integral parts of products being assembled in China, Vietnam, and elsewhere.

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When the White House was unrolling these various initiatives, the point was made frequently that these were all interlocking integral pieces of one package to create jobs.

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It is really only in the past 50 years that plastic has become integral to our everyday lives, another point that makes me realize that we can vastly cut back our consumption of plastic if consumers weren't so lazy, and designer thought "smarter" early on in the manufacturing process.

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