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I have no idea where the guns are made, but if you are talking about Kioti and Kubota, they are not made in the same country (as best as I have heard). Kubota is made largely in Japan with some manufacturing/assembly plants in America (Georgia?). Kioti is made in South Korea with parts warehouses and a sub-assembly plant in the US. I know I saw on Kioti's website that they had a groundbreaking for a new building, but I haven't read the article to see what the building is going to be.
The Kioti's seem to be great tractors (I love my DK 45), but so are all of the Korean imports (Century/Branson, Mahindra compacts, Millenium/Scorpion). These tractors represent probably the best value in new compact tractors on the market (that means most stuff for less money). Of course, it depends where you shop. There was a fella that was looking at Kioti vs. Kubota and he got a Kubota MX5000 comparably equipped to a Kioti DK 50 for less money, and those are pretty similar tractors. In my case, the Kioti was about $2000-$4000 less than a comparable Kubota.
I really doubt that Kubota's lawsuit has wheels, but you never know. Of course, it's bound to bring at least a little publicity to Kioti and I think somebody said (was is P.T. Barnum?) "There's no such thing as bad publicity."