Any way of checking source of parts?

[Multispacer]

In my question, I'm just curious if there is any way to easily check the source of parts, as in the country of manufacture? When I service my vehicle I tend to go for branded parts, rather than the cheapest, in the hope that I will get some sort of decent build quality but it seems that even that does not guarantee where your parts might originate from. Ideally, I would like to always buy UK parts but we don't make much anymore, so European is also fine by me but having just replaced my front brake discs and pads with parts from a major brake company, I found the discs from this particular brand were actually made in China.

[cancunia]

I read somewhere that some Bosch filters are now made in China even though it says Made in Germany on the packet. I don't know how true that is, but the simple fact is that so much of what we buy is now made in China in whole or in part. So long as you're buying a genuine brand product, chances are that some or all of it will be made in China. Quality control on branded products is now way ahead of where it was even 5 years ago.
Chinese 'own brand' products are a different matter, I bought some brake pads a few years ago, turned out that they had steel swarf embedded in coconut fibre.

[Sol]

It shows how much is made in china when you look at the scale of the Chinese ship stuck in the Suez Canal...goods have stopped being received the world over and the oil price has risen....

[magoo]

It shows how much is made in china when you look at the scale of the Chinese ship stuck in the Suez Canal...goods have stopped being received the world over and the oil price has risen....

The price has been going up by a penny a litre of 5p a gallon (approx) every week or two for months.

Supply and demand is obviously out the window.

[Sol]

Yeah I saw that at all the petrol stations but the price of crude has risen further, just due to that ship being stuck and all crude from the middle East now has to be taken round the Horn of Africa. That increases the cost of its transport so cost-push inflation sets in.

Crude had been steadily rising anyway as things start to run again.