32. Israeli company name. Dishes made in non-Jewish factories require tevila even when made for a Jewish company. Thus, one must even toivel an Israeli company’s dishes bought in a Jewish store in Eretz Yisroel if they were manufactured in Chutz l’Aretz. Even silver dishes purchased in Eretz Yisroel from well-known companies are occasionally manufactured in Chutz l’Aretz and require tevila misafeik, albeit without a bracha.
33. Dishes manufactured in Eretz Yisroel do not require tevila. Even if the company is mechalel Shabbos, lo aleinu, and considered a mumar, the minhag is not to require tevila (קובץ מבית לוי ).
34. Dishes made in the United States. There are many Jews in the United States involved in all sorts of enterprises, causing some to be concerned that dishes manufactured there were owned, or at least partly-owned by Jews. As a result, although the dishes require tevila since most people in the United States are not Jewish, they are concerned that perhaps we do not follow rov regarding the bracha, so they do not make a bracha on the tevila (שו"ת תשורת ש"י סי' ע"ד הובא בדרכ"ת סקפ"א, הגריש"א, תשוה"נ ח"ב סי' ת"ח ).
35. Nevertheless, most poskim hold that dishes made in a place with a majority of non-Jews require tevila with a bracha as long as it is not known that they were owned by Jews (הגר"ש וואזנר, חוט שני הל' טבילת כלים עמ' י"ט ).
36. Dishes made in the Far East. Many things today are manufactured in the Far East, e.g., China, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. There is barely a Jewish population there and all agree dishes made there require tevila with a bracha [with the exception of dishes with a hechsher stating they do not require tevila], as we are not concerned that Jews have part-ownership of factories in these places (שו"ת אג"מ או"ח ח"ג סי' ד' ). We are also not concerned about Jewish-owned shares if they do not have influence over the factories since these shares do not exempt from tevila (שו"ת ויברך דוד ח"א סי' צ"ו ). Although some today never make a bracha on tevila, it would be a pity to completely forfeit a bracha Chazal established without good reason.
