RyanioBirdio
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This also applies to things like clothing and merchandise. If you buy a T-shirt that was made in a sweatshop in Thailand but you stamp the ink on it in a printing factory in Leeds, you get to proudly proclaim that the garment is Made In The UK. Which also means you can charge more for it, because people assume that the garment being made here means it’s more ethical, and therefore costs more but is a price worth paying etc.Currently a raw product arrives in the UK from Thailand, China.........or any EU country.
Under current regulations it can be labelled as UK (EU Plant Number) if the last process happened on UK soil.
From the FSA:
The FIC identifies the origin of a food as being either its 'country of origin' or 'place of provenance'. The 'country of origin' is the country from which the product was wholly obtained or, if production involved more than one country, the country where the product last underwent substantial, economically justified processing. The 'place of provenance' is any place where a food is indicated to come from that is not the 'country of origin'.
So it already happens.............
The system works.