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Posted by Nick Clarke 3 on 22/02/2019 08:54:40:
Posted by Neil Wyatt on 16/01/2019 12:58:08:

'Country of manufacture' has a legal definition as the country where the last substantive manufacturing process was carried out (attaching a sticker probably would not count, assembling individual parts probably would).

In that case my Chinese mini lathe which came with the crossslide and tailstock handles separate so I had to screw them into the knobs qualifies as British then?

Maybe. Though more likely in your example to have been done to reduce the risk of damage in transit, unfinished goods are often supplied that way to avoid tax and tariffs.

Kits (requiring assembly to produce a working item) are often taxed at a reduced rate compared with finished goods. I've bought kits recently from the USA and Bulgaria, where all I needed to do was put them into the case provided, which is stretching the definition of a kit. Saved me a lot of money though. Similar arrangements are often agreed for much larger items like aircraft and car making. Sometimes the country of manufacture makes nothing of a car itself - all the parts are imported, like as not from many other countries.

Modern supply-chains are usually multi-national and finely tuned to avoid costs, not only tax, during manufacture, finance, warehousing, transport, export, import, administration and retail. International supply-chains often depend on hard to negotiate Trade Deals - make your own mind up about the risks to supply, prices and jobs if a trading nation goes global without agreements in place...

Dave

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