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New Balance Lobbies Congress to Make the U.S. Military's Only Running Shoe

Pentagon Shift

Training shoes, the last part of U.S. military uniforms that isn’t required to be 100 percent U.S.-made and -sourced, could soon go all-American. How New Balance could be set to profit.

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The Daily Beast

The shoes American soldiers wear when they train for combat may soon be all American made—creating a possible monetary boon for New Balance, a shoe company that has long lobbied for the change.

Federal law requires military service members be dressed in 100 percent American-made uniforms and clothing.

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