French consumers seeking to boycott US struggle to identify American products
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Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is…

Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is making it tough to identify which products to boycott.

  • idegenszavakEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    The first 3 characters of barcodes means the country of origin.It won’t tell the nationality of the owner of the factory, but you can see where it was packaged, if there are no other clues it can help. Here is the full list. Basically if the first number is 0, 1 or 2, there is a big chance it’s from the us.

    • CheradenineEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      According to your link

      GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product.