[julie_m]

Probably a tax dodge -- er, efficiency measure. Import nearly-complete sets minus some important parts that can be sourced locally, but without which they will not work, so they can legitimately be described as parts as opposed to finished sets. You can then finish off the sets using local parts and labour, and sell them as locally-made -- and probably even get a chunk of local government money to build your factory with, in return for promising to create jobs and boost the local economy (people with jobs have got to spend their wages on something) .