The spark plug and the air filter might be made in china but the cylinder, sump, crank, piston, the head and all the plastic parts are made here in Poplar Bluff and the carburetors are made in the Murry Ky Briggs plant.
Sorry, but that ain't true on every B&S engine, probably true on
some of the more expensive "pro" engines and such... at twice the price.
My last walk-behind had a B&S with some sort of "
plastic" cast carburetor, and stamped right in the side of it was "
Made in China"! The darn thing backfired and caught fire... the carb melted before I could get it put out, L-O-L! I just rebuilt the carb on my Briggs-powered garden tiller last spring... every single part came separately (no "kit" available) with "
Product of China" on the package (except the o-rings). Yesterday at the fleet store I was looking at the lawn tractors (I always open the hoods to see what engine is used)... one Briggs on a cheaper model had a plastic shroud over it with "
Made in China" molded right into it. Last summer I rebuilt the top end of my Harley Davidson golf cart (cylinder, piston and rings)... the cylinder was a re-bore, the fitted piston and rings came from China.
Briggs & Stratton markets several dozen models of engine, with dozens of different configurations withing those models (some of them proprietary to particular applications by other companies), and they sell them world-wide. No way they make "all" of anything right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
Here's something you might find interesting...
In 2007, Briggs closed its
engine plant in Rolla, Mo., and shifted half of that plant's production to a plant it opened in
China!