An assemblyplant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components, and which then exports its products to the company's country of origin; also similar factories in other countries.
Origin
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish maquiladora, from maquilar.
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