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Reading the absence of polypropylene as a supply fact Expecting a sample size under thirty milliliters Expecting a count of twenty four or twenty five identical containers Searching for a round milliliter figure Filtering the closure material column on an exact string Treating an availability count as durable for a subscription Reading an unqualified origin badge as a safe way to say it And assuming a true statement about assembly is a safe claim References

Seventy eight containers exist one routing decision away. And this shelf cannot show you any of them.

Reading the absence of polypropylene as a supply fact

All 78 polypropylene rows on the shared shelf are excluded from this one. They exist, nine other groups see them, and a buyer standing here cannot tell. What a curated shelf omits is a fact about the shelf.

Expecting a sample size under thirty milliliters

This shelf is closed at 30 and the shared shelf it comes from goes down to 5. Twenty two rows below 30 were excluded, so the small end is a routing decision and not an absence from the catalog.

Expecting a count of twenty four or twenty five identical containers

An advent calendar needs one of those numbers and the smallest case pack on this shelf is 12, with the next step far above 25. The median case is 330.

Searching for a round milliliter figure

Eight of the seventeen capacities here are round and nine are fluid ounces converted. 236.6 is eight ounces and 118.3 is four, and an exact search for 250 finds one value where a band finds three.

Filtering the closure material column on an exact string

Two rows read plastic and metal and one reads metal and polypropylene, so a filter matching metal exactly returns 37 and drops four partly metal rows. Two further rows read simply plastic, which is a category rather than a material.

Treating an availability count as durable for a subscription

Thirty eight of the 107 containers were marked unavailable when this was measured on 19 October 2026. A subscription box depends on the same container being available repeatedly, which is the hardest thing to plan from a one-day snapshot.

Reading an unqualified origin badge as a safe way to say it

A seal, mark, tag or stamp has no room for a qualifier, so it is almost always the unqualified form of the claim and carries the full three-part test. A sentence can be qualified and a roundel generally cannot.

And assuming a true statement about assembly is a safe claim

The rule requires final assembly here, all significant processing here, and all or virtually all components made and sourced here. A product genuinely assembled in the United States from imported parts satisfies the first test and fails the third, and labeling it Made in the USA is an unfair or deceptive act. Nothing on these pages states the origin of anything, because the catalog records none.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. This group draws on 107 containers, a strict subset of the 251 that nine groups share identically, with no rows of its own, so 144 rows are excluded. By material the base shelf holds 117 PET, 78 polypropylene and 56 glass; this shelf keeps 83 of the PET and 24 of the glass and none of the polypropylene. All 78 polypropylene rows are excluded without exception. Every tub, pail and tube is excluded as well, 12 and 2 respectively, leaving 99 jars and 8 bottles from four categories on the base shelf. And all 24 rows recorded as Natural are excluded, which follows, because Natural denotes unpigmented polypropylene. Nothing in the record states a reason for any exclusion.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The base shelf runs 5 to 500 mL across 29 distinct capacity values. This shelf runs 30 to 354.882 mL across seventeen: 30, 50, 55, 59.1, 75, 88.7, 100, 118.3, 125, 150, 177.4, 200, 236.6, 248.4, 250, 266.2 and 354.9 mL. Twenty two of the excluded rows sit below 30 mL and 35 above 355. The median is 118.3 mL. Heights run 1.27 to 5.33 inches with a median of 2.27, recorded for 96 of 107; diameters 1.25 to 3.70 inches with a median of 2.39, recorded for 91. These are outside dimensions.

16 CFR 323.2, Prohibited acts: "In connection with promoting or offering for sale any good or service, in or affecting commerce as “commerce” is defined in section 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 44, it is an unfair or deceptive act or practice within the meaning of section 5(a)(1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 45(a)(1), to label any product as Made in the United States unless the final assembly or processing of the product occurs in the United States, all significant processing that goes into the product occurs in the United States, and all or virtually all ingredients or components of the product are made and sourced in the United States." law.cornell.edu

Written from 16 CFR part 323 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Part 323 is the Made in USA Labeling Rule and it governs an unqualified claim of United States origin; it imposes no labeling requirement on anybody who makes no such claim, and it does not reach any container on this shelf. The catalog records no country of origin for any product, so nothing here states the origin of anything or whether any product may be labeled Made in the USA. Nothing here is advice about origin claims or advertising. This shelf is a subset of the store-small-dry shelf and the sewing notions property enumerates that shelf in full.