Well that sucks to hear quality is going down. I just checked molex boxes and the 24pin cut to size headers are made in Mexico date 1840. The Mate-N-Lok style by molex say India tho and I couldnt find a date. They come in a molded plastic in a box and looked like they made it here OK.

I use a lot of the no locking channel KK cut to size 24pin 1.56" headers. Last time i looked around I couldn't find a good Asian equivalent or something like the GPE value line 0.100" cut to size no lock headers (which i also use lots of).

I have been pretty satisfied with the 0.156" locking headers from Tayda. In some test gear I have with tons of connector cycles there is a mix of tayda (brand X) and molex 0.156" headers with lock channel. The plating on the Tayda headers lasted as long or longer than the similar type molex brand headers before insertion cycling rubbed the plating off.

Allan, who was a Bally engineer and posts here, told an interesting story about the molex pins burning up on the bally rectifier board and why they switched to the mat-n-lok plugs which would fall into the molex being taboo world.