Import Idea ...maybe

I've heard that large hotels in Germany send their laundry to be
cleaned in Poland. You can find Polish workers that will do the
laundry for 3Euro/hr while in Germany, the same worker will be paided
13Euro/hr. Evidently companies have sprung up that handle the
transaction for the hotels, ie truck the laundry to and fro, keep
track of it, etc.

Could the same thing work for the US? Could hotels in Southern
California, Arizona, Texas send their linen to Mexico to have it
washed? If so, would you really be importing anything? After all,
the same linen is going into Mexico as is coming out. Would there be
any duties or other customs snags that would make it impractical?

AND, does it have to stop at laundry? Could I send engines to Mexico,
have them rebuilt, then bring them back to the US to be sold? How
about auto body work?, How about having the hull on a boat scraped?
etc... Just a thought.

Anthony

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