Majority of Germans endorsed labelling of European products
Wegen Trumps Handelspolitik: Mehrheit befürwortet Kennzeichnung europäischer Produkte
cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/31396291
If the owner is european, doesn't that mean taxes are paid here?
Some of them are, sure, but the people working and producing the products in a different country will also pay taxes to that country.
Even if we ignore the workers' taxes, if I was to buy an ingredient for my product from an american company, they will pay taxes from the money I paid them. This is why what Salling is doing is at best a bit useless and at worst completely misleading. I will have no clue wether or not something has been imported and repackaged, had ingredients imported, or is 100% european produced with the labeling. In essense all it tells me, is that the person who sold the final product is situated in Europe in some capacity.
Yes, I understand. You're right. I wonder how they could do a 100% accurate tracking, considering how intertwinned todays world economy is. I think even the most European of brands manufacture stuff in China.
I suppose a percentage based on multiple factors could work. Like, just spitballing numbers here.
It would however be quite expensive to make the documentation for every single product sold, but Denmark already requires something more convoluted and detailed with construction materials and environmental impact, so I suppose it wouldn't be impossible to implement. Just a matter of will.
Edit. Fucked up the percentage stuff a bit, made it make sense.
That's an interesting approach. But yeah, it would need to be made law because companies wouldn't take on that work on their own.
Hopefully Salling can improve their methodology, I still think its pretty cool they're trying to promote responsible buying.