For what it's worth, I think the "made in Germany" body tags for the dolls may have started around 1995. Addy was released in 1993 -- I bought mine as soon as I could and she doesn't have a body tag. (None of my earlier dolls that I bought from Pleasant Co. do either.) The next new doll that was released in 1995 turned out to be the American Girl of Today series. Gina is one of the first AGTs (again, I raced from the mailbox to the phone with my catalog!) and she has a "made in Germany" body tag. Her box label says something like "Made in Germany, Spain, China" and I think that referred to the various places that clothing was manufactured as well as the doll. For example, the dolls' stockings were made in Spain originally. I'd have to look but I think Gina's white shirt was made in China.

Addy's cutter sled was the first plastic item I ever received from Pleasant Co. and that was always made in China and first released in 1994. There was also a recall of Felicity's tarts that were purchased early in 1996, because the first tarts made in China were painted with lead-based paint! Before that the tarts were made somewhere else and the coloring was more realistic. Kirsten's strawberries also changed around that time and became less detailed and differently colored because they were made in China. So I think that the 1995 to 1997 period was when more and more of the accessories were made in China and the body tags were used to identify that the doll herself was still being made in Germany. When Josefina came out in 1997, the doll was made in China, too! I was so dumb-founded that I went back and read the labels on all my doll boxes before Josefina and that's when I noticed that other countries besides Germany were shown on the labels. I hope this helps.