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How to pronounce maquiladora in English?

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Type of assembly plant

Examples of maquiladora

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Home to one in five of all maquiladora jobs, it's been hit hard by recession.
From the businessweek.com
The state has lost close to 63,000 maquiladora jobs in the past 16 months.
From the businessweek.com
Foreign investment by maquiladora operators is crucial to paying this annual interest.
From the scienceblogs.com
Tariffs have been slashed, banks and pensions privatised, and maquiladora zones set up.
From the economist.com
Behind the maquiladora phenomenon are complementary Mexican and U.S. economic policies.
From the time.com
Same article shows that maquiladora real monthly income increased 15.5%.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Mr Cook estimates that 50,000 jobs in El Paso are owed to the Mexican maquiladora industry.
From the economist.com
The maquiladora, or assembly industry, was a growth industry in the generally bleak economy.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Foreign-run maquiladora factories pay as little as $50 a week.
From the denverpost.com
More examples
  • An assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border
  • A maquiladora or maquila is a concept often referred to an operation that involves manufacturing in a country that is not the client's and as such has an interesting duty or tariff treatment. ...
  • (Maquiladoras) Domestic Mexican firms that manufacture or assemble products for a foreign company. The products are then sent back to the foreign company for sale and distribution.
  • (maquiladoras) Duty-free assembly plants located mainly in the developing world.
  • A factory, often foreign-owned, that assembles goods for export. From Spanish, the word is pronounced mah-kee-lah-DOH-rah. It is usually shortened to maquila (mah-KEE-lah).
  • A program for the temporary importation of goods into Mexico without duty, under the condition that they contribute -- through further processing, transformation, or repair -- to exports. The program was established in 1965, and expanded in 1989.
  • The term comes from the Spanish word maquila, which in colonial Mexico was the charge that millers collected for processing grain. ...
  • A foreign-owned manufacturing plant in Mexico, generally near the U.S. border. Maquiladoras have often been established by U.S. corporations in order to exploit low-wage Mexican labor. They are also allowed by the Mexican government to import materials and equipment from the U.S. duty free. ...
  • A factory on the Mexican side of the US-Mexican border which specializes in assembling components shipped from the US (or other markets). The finished product is also returned to the US market. Many, but not all maquilas are subsidiaries of US corporations. ...