NOT made in Taiwan

An American was working in Korea. While visiting Taiwan, he went shopping for authentic Taiwanese souvenirs to give as gifts to Korean friends. Many products in America have "made in Taiwan" labels, so this should be fairly easy, right?

At the first location he noticed a display of jewelry trinkets. These would have been perfect to buy inexpensively in large numbers. As the pile of selected items grew, he finally noticed that one of them, ironically, had a "made in Korea" label. So he began checking all of the items, in fact the entire display, and every single item had a "made in Korea" label.

So, even though America has a plethora of "made in Taiwan" products, finding any such products while actually in Taiwan proved surprisingly difficult. And importing Korean products into Korea via Taiwan seemed to violate the spirit of giving Taiwanese souvenirs as gifts. It ended up taking several days, in fact, to actually buy souvenirs purportedly made in Taiwan.