I find it strange that that PowerMac was assembled in my country (and then presumably shipped off to USA)

Wouldn't it have been cheaper for Apple to have assembled it in the States instead of doing it here and then having it shipped halfway across the world? Considering that these machines are heavy desktops and no PowerBooks! 8-o

Especially since that I have another machine of around the same vintage, the very first Xserve G4, Assembed in USA, factory code XB.

It is certainly weird.