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Since the summer of 1990, Panasonic has not imported Japanese-made vacs for the North American market.  Panasonic vacuums are made in Mexico according to special North American design specifications.  I think that very few parts of a North American Panasonic vac are from Asia.


The Sears retail giant has had a very long history of contracting the North American Panasonic division to provide all their high-end Kenmore vacuum cleaners.  This began in the summer of 1990, when Japan's Panasonic bought the Whirlpool vacuum factory (I think in Danville, Kentucky or Tennessee - forget where) Whirlpool had been manufacturing vacs for Sears for many decades before that.


But Sears also bought vacuums from other manufacturers over the years, inncluding Korea's LG and Electrolux/Eureka.  So it seems quite possible that these cheaper "Made in China" canisters are being made by TTI in China, not North American Panasonic.


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