As VANSMACK has already said during the industrial revolution America was not the leader in industry. American industrial expansion happened mostly during the period of around 1910-1970ish where they did become a leader of industry worldwide. This is a little after the industrial revolution occurred in around 1790-1850ish.

Some reasons for this mass expansion were that America had a suberb railway system, cheap access to resources (due to plenty of natural resources throughout the country), and relatively cheap labour from immigrants. Despite being the world leader, Europe still maintained a large industrial capacity that was hurt during the two world wars but recovered fairly quickly.

America's quick industrial expansion decreased around the 70's where you saw the formation of the 'Rust Belt' in what was the traditional industrial heartland of America. This period is where a number of companies abandoned manufacturing in large parts of the US. This was due to a number of issues including rising wages, overpower-full unions, and increased competition from other countries and areas which could produce goods for less.

Ironically, the closest analogue to a nation that fits the parameters of the OP's question is one most would not suspect: Germany.

The British Merchandise Acts of 1887 decreed that all industrially manufactured goods had to identify their country of origin. German goods in the 1870s had a reputation for being shoddy and cheap and the Merchandise Acts was presented as a means for British consumers to chose a higher quality item (i.e. British) over their cheaper foreign competitors. One of the bestsellers for 1896 was Ernest Williams's Made in Germany, which uses a lot of the same rhetoric as today's protectionists. For example, Williams ascribes Germans' export growth to their ability to work for lower wages at longer hours, the reliance of German manufacture of "cheap and nasty goods," and the propensity of the British worker to engage in strikes more frequently than his German counterpart.

Some of this hyperbole was due to the quality of German goods, but most of this protectionism reflected the anxieties surrounding the decline of British manufacturing. It should be noted that Williams ignores both the upsurge in labor strikes in Germany and the fact that the Imperial German state tended to be militantly anti-labor.

By the twentieth century, German manufacturing was able to turn this image of German shodiness on its head and "Made in Germany" became a sign of high quality and an emblem of German craftsmanship.

Sources

Conrad, Sebastian. Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Williams, Ernest Edwin. "Made in Germany". London: W. Heinemann, 1897.

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