Classifying by country: how does it work?
The “Country” of an item is the target country. For instance, an item is “Japanese” not when it is made in Japan, but when Japan is the country it was made for. Logically, the manufacturing country matches the target country in most items, so the usual “Made in” inscription is the best reference to start with in case of doubt. The target country is easily spotted on items that have a sticker, a special seal, a folder, etc., since they are usually printed in the local language. But the target country is sometimes not that obvious, and is told in different ways depending on the case: sometimes by the sleeve (ie. French tapes made in Holland), the labels (Israelian CDs, US CDs made in Japan, EU CDs made in Germany), the rights society (Belgium 7″), the matrixes (many CDs from UK, France, or Germany), or even by the info given to us by Marketing representatives or dealers (ie. the EU Vinyl Replica CDs).
