well... after i did a whole lot of pallet disassembly, i started noticing some woods that felt distinctly different from the norm. i set these aside. i built with other things till i got a bit more comfortable using tools in general. i am new to all but a hammer. i have never even hung a picture or built a birdhouse.
so, now i have started cleaning up that wood. i am not sure what country. from when you said that before, i have taken pics and made notes and started a spreadsheet of where and what each pallet came from (both location i got it, and pallet codes). im sorry to say, this piece is from the tile place, but no idea what country. could be mexico, i took several apart from mexico in the beginning. this piece was warped, so cleaning it up was not high on the list. then one day i sanded the crud off and thought, wow! that is pretty!
there is only one piece of this, which is odd... there are 2, 3 or even 4 stringers on a pallet. this, in many i have taken apart, means it was repaired along the way, so could have been repaired in a totally different country, with just about anything.
sorry, i cant tell you more about the country of origin for the pallet.