Blue jeans - a western commodity that had lots to do with the demise of Communism in western Europe - are now having one of their largest producers totally exit the continent (production in both the U.S. and Canada being shut down). I don't know if they produce in Mexico, so maybe not the whole continent.

Apparently, over the last several years, the jeans have only been assembled here anyways, with all of the preliminary production steps being done off-shore.

It would be great irony if it turned out that production is now to be done in (communist) China.

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