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What point did you think I was making initially?

"plus a lot of assembly to be able to call the final product e.g. "german made" and have the associated tax-cuts..."

Or, in your words:

"They use Chinese components... to manufacture planes... in Europe."

I don't think you can intelligently describe building aeroplanes as just 'assembly' work.

All _key_ components for large airplanes are made either in the EU, Israel, CA or USA.

By contrast, the Chinese COMAC airplane consists largely of of imported parts.