The article did point out that the requirements for declaring something to be "Assembled in USA" are a lot more stringent.
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The US also has low duties; it's mainly about some other countries, usually in the developing world, which have higher duties and more broken enforcement regimes.
Also the US has weird loopholes with some territories or other treaty countries, so you can do less work to make something "made in USA" in some places and some industries than in others (I think Saipan, American Samoa, Puerto Rico have special status)