Akebono rotors are "engineered in Germany" and made in china, but they are noticeably nicer than the white box or other "premium" names, I usually go with these on the US/import cars we get. We mostly see euro and the names that aren't chinese anywhere are Zimmerman, Brembo, Sebro, Ate, and Fremax are starting to show up, made in Brazil. Akebono is the same as Bosch/Textar/Meyle coated rotors, except the age coating is more dull grey, and the others are bright silver. All of those are high carbon though, and work when nothing else is in stock or available.