Re:Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day
by jdietrich on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:07PM
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A lot of dirty tricks are played by exploiting the rules of origin. You can mark something as "Made in Italy" if the last substantial transformation of the goods occurred there. Last substantial transformation is very poorly defined, so is open to creative interpretation. You can make 95% of a handbag in China or Bangladesh, do some final stitching in Italy and perfectly legally label it as "made in Italy".
The inverse manipulation is used by Pakistani manufacturers of surgical instruments. They buy stamped steel blanks from Germany, perform the labour-intensive grinding and sharpening in Pakistan, then label the instruments as "Made in Germany" by claiming that they did not undergo substantial transformation in Pakistan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_origin
The inverse manipulation is used by Pakistani manufacturers of surgical instruments. They buy stamped steel blanks from Germany, perform the labour-intensive grinding and sharpening in Pakistan, then label the instruments as "Made in Germany" by claiming that they did not undergo substantial transformation in Pakistan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaTWtz1AzPE