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

But isn't China the only place where they had the genuine indigo (aka denim) color?

I wouldn't be surprised if ketchup, gunpowder, rockets and spaghetti production was moved to where it was invented. According to the legend, even the word "jeans" isn't really American, except that it's just the American pronounciation of the French transcription of the name of Italian city of Genova, where the cloth came from.