And yet, according to: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 "If a British company imports components, it has to pay

And yet, according to: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 "If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain"