Auditing Manufacturer Regulations

 Oversimplifying a little, everything is made for California. Zeroth problem: typically the items are unsuitable outside California, because different places have different local conditions. However, the marginal Californian regulation is neither worth making a California-specific factory for, nor does the modification cost so much it's worth discarding the California market.

 So, first problem: what about the gestalt of all California regulations? Some country needs to exhaustively interrogate manufacturers and see how many California regulations it can repeal.

 E.g. fire retardants all exist due to corrupt California fire-retardant regulations. However, many jurisdictions passed similar "quality" laws either so they don't have to think of themselves as out of fashion, or because "oh yeah retarding fire is a good idea." The California fire-retardants don't retard fire. They're little more than bonus  poisons.
 (This is pasteurizing New York milk all over again. If you want non-garbage milk, don't drink the product of cows fed garbage. If you don't like flammable furniture, don't make it out of easily-oxidized foams full of oxygenated air. E.g. springs don't burn. At least seal it and fill it with carbon dioxide so a fire unsealing it causes the fire to get snuffed...)  

 How many of these Californian regulations could a country simply repeal? Probably all of them. Even if one or two is (despite everything) a good rule, the gain from repealing the rest and skipping investigation would be worth the slight cost of re-discovering the good rules via experience. However, that's politically tricky. The safe and muscular-sounding way is to audit the regulations. Go through every product and ask the manufacturer about every compliance feature. Very demanding and alpha and all that. Then, because 99% of the time the feature will be there "because California," make sure to repeal the local ordinance. 

 One or two or a dozen of these would be a waste of time, but the actual number is going to be tens or hundreds of thousands. Products would become dramatically more profitable in that country, almost certainly worth building local production to serve that market. How many car "safety" features are in fact pork barrel projects, which are at best neutral for safety? Ideally, the country would legalize cottage industry (defund the HTF) producing even stronger downward pressure on prices along with greater "product-market" fit. 

 (Oh noes! It's the dreaded deflation! Dun dun dunnnn! If prices go down that means sales taxes go down...or so the government thinks... Come to think, 96% certainty [consumerism] is nothing but tax bill maxxing.)

 California "safety" features 100% cost more than you gain from economies of scale. If folk were permitted to make the stuff at home, it would cost them less. A non-Communist factory would cost even less, sure, but let not the perfect be the enemy of the good.

 Foreign crime is always an opportunity. Lies are always a weakness.
 If you don't want to be little more than an outpost of America, you can go ahead and unilaterally separate in ways they can't even complain about. You could have not merely products™ but specifically Hungarian products. (P.S. Yet another pro-immigrant lie: if they love foreign food so much, why can't you get sbiten or kvass? Or dozens of other cosmopolitan recipes? The argument is sogol.)
 The only downside of the plan is that it is likely to reduce government spending. All these compliance officers are being rendered redundant. That makes the deficit go down, and we all know you're not allowed to make the deficit go down like that.
 Certain current politicians could do it anyway.