One of the many reasons manufacturing is now mostly abroad:

“But he said that there are still anomalies in the tax regime – such as that which meant that the British designers of the new Raspberry Pi computer discovered it was cheaper to have it assembled in China than in Britain, because the unassembled individual components would each attract more import tax than the finished item.”

via James Dyson calls for looser employment laws and shorter leases | Business | The Guardian.

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