Electronics are fairly light, you probably don’t save much by shipping raw/incomplete products to the consuming country for final assembly. It’s not like soft drinks, where you want to bottle them close to the point of consumption so you aren’t shipping the dead weight of water around.
Also shipping the manufacturing/automation technology is not particularly cheap, not to mention the amount of on-site setup/calibration that would be required.
And on-going operations, troubleshooting, remediation, upgrades, etc. I either ship my teams out there on the regualar, or else hire locals. And that leads to questions of intellectual property leaks, security holes, fraud & waste, etc.
