To be fair packaging used to be very expensive in US. I remember one of Asianometry? videos touching on Japanese businessman traveling to Texas in ?seventies? and learning how expensive lead frames were while he could manufacture and ship them overseas at fraction of the cost. Sadly I cant find that specific episode anymore :(
I think it might be this one ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpuiJitKwk
This one is about history of packaging technology. The one I remember was about particular Japanese company, similar to "YKK: Japan’s Zipper King".