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> One thing people are not aware of and am curious of how big it really is: China manufacturing laundry. Essentially, goods are manufactured in China, then laun
by tivert 2y ago
> One thing people are not aware of and am curious of how big it really is: China manufacturing laundry. Essentially, goods are manufactured in China, then laundered to a third-party country and then exported to the US/EU.
IIRC, a lot of stuff that's labeled "Made in Singapore" is/was basically that.
- doppp 2y agoAs a Singaporean, I have not seen this. Do you have any proof?
- fooker 2y agoLook around from a rooftop, do you see many factories with smoke coming out of chimneys?
- bluGill 2y agoMost factoies don't have a chimney. electric powers them.
- csomar 2y agoYou'd be surprised. Look up Jurong Island.
- csomar 2y agoYes: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1ZDRiQdhr3Ngf5qP6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/1ZDRiQdhr3Ngf5qP6 I'd not be surprised if this activity is quite limited in Singapore given that they have been under a tight microscope lately. Money laundering used to be their business but now they are rich and make money "legitimately" and within the "international" framework.
- gruez 2y agoTo be fair, having an industrial district doesn't preclude tariff laundering either. If you're trying to pass chinese goods as singaporean, you'd want your address to be a factory, rather than an office in a business park somewhere. Even if that wasn't a consideration, at the very least you'd need warehouse space to repackage/reship goods, so you'd need to rent out a warehouse/factory anyways.
- whimsicalism 2y agofrankly i don’t really see many things at all that say “made in singapore”