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‖ maquiladora, n.|makiaˈdora anglicized məˌkiləˈdɔːrə|
[Mexican Sp., f. maquilar to assemble.]
In Mexico, a factory or workshop owned by a foreign company, which employs low-cost local labour to assemble goods (esp. electronic equipment or clothing) from imported components, and exports the completed products to the company's country of origin.
1978Washington Post 26 Mar. a11/1 Clusters of twin factories known as maquiladoras dot the border region. 1988D. Burstein Yen! v. 155 The electronic components made at a Matsushita maquiladora in Tijuana..disappear completely from the U.S.–Japan trade picture. 1991Newsweek 20 May 43/1 Since the mid-1960s U.S. companies have been setting up maquiladoras in Mexico and shipping the tariff-free products back to American markets. |