Where are Ursa Minor campers made?
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Ursa Minor campers are not made in China. They have never have been sourced from China whole or in part.
They are designed and assembled in Portland, Oregon from US and Mexican origin parts. All Ursa Minor campers currently meet Assembled in USA requirements.
- The ECamper, Ford Transit Connect and Jeep J30 for JK currently meet FTC definitions and requirements to be considered Made in USA. They use minimal foreign components, and are designed, fabricated, assembled and installed in the USA., or as the FTC puts it,: substantially transformed.
- The Jeep J30 for JL and Bronco B30 are assembled in Portland from Mexico sourced composite parts and would not meet Made in USA requirements in 2025.
There are Chinese sourced components used in our camper that we have not found elsewhere:
- LED lights
- Machined bronze bushings
- Fasteners (bolts, nuts, screws)
- Miscellaneous Hardware - latches etc.
The main foreign part source is from our Mexico shop, where we do fiberglass fabrication work for the JL and Bronco. This is a fully owned and operated facility operating in Tijuana since the early 1980's, and under NAFTA/USMCA tariff regulation. With the ongoing turmoil in tariffs, including voiding much of the NAFTA/USMCA agreement, in January 2025 we moved several of our molds to a supplier in Oregon as part of a strategy to remove tariff risk and balance demand/production.
The challenge in determining origin is that the FTC makes it quite time intensive to vet the entire supply chain and document origin. There are also qualitative decisions on what impacts a claim.
In our situation, as an example of the challenge: we have several resin suppliers, and they offer similar products but the origin of the resin can vary. Many are made in USA but we have seen Korean and Chinese origin as well. We also intentionally have some parts made in both USA and our shop in Mexico, which means for a random camper it could be all USA parts or a mix of US and Mexico. If we built aircraft we might track all the materials through production to the end product, but these are campers!
In summary, when purchasing an Ursa Minor, you are not buying from a distributor that brings in containers from China. You are putting your cash directly to the team that designs, builds, maintains and services the product, and some of that team is in Mexico.