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Hey Dan, they are Chinese. Carbon steerer, Carbon dropouts, carbon fork.
Update, I hit the forks with some wet and dry, first on the side where there was a split in the paint, after rubbing back there appeared to be a seam where the dropouts were bonded to the fork then sealed with resin and rubbed back to a smooth finish.
If this were the case there would be a seam on the opposite side, so I rubbed back the fork above the other dropout and sure enough there was a matching seam.
The split in the paint occurred directly over the seam, so to double check, I bound the forks at the dropouts with some zip-ties and pulled them together to see if the seam separated under tension.
There doesn't appear to be any flexing, the seams seem very solid. I'm thinking that the paint might have had a weaker adhesion to the resin seam than it did to the carbon fork.. So when the hard knock happened it may have split the paint at that weak spot. I'm gonna ride them again and do the same check after a short ride.