'made In Britain' May Soon Disapear.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/421416/EU-threat-to-Made-In-Britain-labels

Is there no end to EU crazy legislation?

/// Products with parts from several different countries would have their origin defined on the basis of where the most expensive component came from. The proposal has split Europe. While the British and German governments oppose the change, it is being supported by Italy, Spain and Portugal. ///

[Spoonboy]

So we could be see products, like cars, being advertised as "made wherever": I'd go for that. British things should remain just that.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Most of paper for newspapers originates in Scandinavia. It would be amusing to buy a Daily Mail with 'Made in Finland' under the madthead ///

Or even the Guardian and all other newspapers, and other publications on paper.

[anotheoldgit]

/// The Daily Mail is, I believe, owned and financed through offshore trusts and companies, for tax reasons. What should it be labelled as ? ///

As it is now "The Daily Mail".

[andy-hughes]

Increasingly, I think it matters less to anyone the country of origin of a product - it's the price that gets the business.

[FredPuli43]

Exactly, AOG. It would be silly to have "Daily Mail made and owned by tax avoiders in the Cayman Islands (or whatever the case may be)" It wouldn't sound British and patriotic, would it? Nothing against tax avoiders, myself.

[emmie]

not sure that is strictly true gromit -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_Factory

[emmie]

if goods are made here in Britain, then that is what the goods should be marked with.

[FredPuli43]

But what does 'made in' mean? The US had this problem a few years ago. Goods were being sold as 'US made' when all that was happening was that the goods were made elsewhere , delivered to a plant, and assembled in the US, perhaps by putting two bits together or simply putting the knobs or legs on a piece of furniture.

[emmie]

the supermarkets have long got away with this, produce that doesn't actually come from Britain, simply packaged here, with a British label attached, ludicrous. Joe Public is always the last to know anything.

[emmie]

if the potatoes, beets, turnips are grown here, packed here then have a label saying so. It is somewhat different with items like cars, as parts may be made in Germany, Japan, but other parts of the vehicle made here, so not sure how you get around that, other than itemise each country,

[FredPuli43]

The short answer is laws against misleading trading, trading standards. In the US, I think this is what the answer was. Potatoes grown in Poland can't be sold as 'British potatoes' but the question is always in those favourite words of lawyers, 'reasonable' and 'fact and degree', which may give a lawyer employment.

[emmie]

the manufacturers, makers will get around it somehow. That is the problem over labelling, so often misleading, take these so called sports drinks, good for you, make you run faster, jump higher, sigh.... laden with sugars, which rot your teeth and make some people go doolally.

[Gromit]

I remember buying a high end CD player many years ago (it is still going strong). I ordered it and three weeks later it hadn't arrived so I phone the company up (I was buying from the manufacturer not a store). I was told it was on a container ship coming from Japan. Another three weeks and it still wasn't here so I phoned again. "There have been heavy storms in the South Atlantic and the ship is running late". When I eventually did get delivery, it had a huge British Made sticker on the front.

[anotheoldgit]

Yes and I can always remember once buying a shirt from Marks & Spencer during a period when we were being told to "BUY BRITISH".

Looking through a pile of exactly the same style, size, and colour shirts I was surprised to read on the labels that they were made in 'the Philippines',
Ski Lanka, India and Great Britain.

It would seem that the same shirt was made in just one location and had different labels attached upon completion, why is anyone's guess.

And then there was a time when I bought my first car radio, when it was a luxury to own a car with a radio in it, once again being the patriotic person that I am I chose a good old British name Pye Telecommunications Ltd. of Cambridge, England, only to discover when I came to fit it, it was 'MADE in INDIA'.

[emmie]

which it's why Made in Britain may just be a label someone sticks on the goods in the hope you will buy it, if it said Taiwan, China, you might have second thoughts.

[Zeuhl]

/I was surprised to read on the labels that they were made in 'the Philippines',
Ski Lanka, India and Great Britain/

Yes. You can get labels made in all sorts of places LOL

[emmie]

the goodies, ^^
i am irritated when i see labels that say made in Britain, yet are clearly not, packaged here, that is all.

[bazwillrun]

Britain will soon disapear if our eussr overlords get their way