Courtesy of the National Independent Flag Dealers Association
Saratoga Flag Company spent National Flag Week leading an ad-hoc, grass-roots, bi-partisan group of volunteers from the domestic U.S. Flag industry to Washington, D.C., to advocate for American-made U.S.A. flags.
The National Independent Flag Dealers Association, representing 13 family businesses traveled to Washington, D.C., from all corners of the country, seeking swift solutions to the rise of threats created by imported Chinese-made U.S.A. flags flooding the online marketplace at an alarming pace, putting the domestic American flag industry at risk.
This delegation of flagmakers walked hundreds of miles, knocking on more than 100 doors of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The mission was to bring awareness to the industry projections of factory closures if the federal government does not act immediately to address the imminent threats to the domestic workforce responsible for keeping Old Glory American-made.
Senators and Congressmen were asked to support and co-sponsor The Make American Flags in America Act (H.R. 4137 in the House & S.2001 in the Senate).
