Ummm... Corny-Stormy, the cod used for bait for Alaskan crab is caught there in the Bering sea... often by the crab boats themselves.
And the Italians & Japanese simply let themselves be used by Boeing to pay for the R&D & prototype work, so Boeing could lower the costs on their KC-X bid. "Never buy the 'A' model of anything".
I still think the USAF would have a pretty good tanker with either candidate... its just that the Boeing model might take a few years (& a few billion$) longer to get all the bugs worked out.