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Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

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462 points JumpCrisscross | 3 comments | 30 Aug 25 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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anigbrowl ◴[30 Aug 25 22:39 UTC] No.45078604[source]▶
As well as big business, this is just shutting down or radically altering many small industries. FIlmmakers, authors/book publishers, musicians etc. are negatively incentivized to ship product to the US, so good luck if you are an American consumer with niche cultural hobbies or a specialized importer who does a lot of small-batch orders.
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1. charcircuit ◴[31 Aug 25 00:58 UTC] No.45079397[source]▶
Books aren't tarrifed.
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2. anigbrowl ◴[31 Aug 25 01:12 UTC] No.45079454[source]▶
That's good, but do you think you'll be able to ship to the US without restriction? I don't see post office counter workers working their way through the official list of exemptions published by the WH

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...

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3. charcircuit ◴[31 Aug 25 02:17 UTC] No.45079755[source]▶
>but do you think you'll be able to ship to the US without restriction?

Whenever I import goods the HS codes are provided for each item, so it shouldn't be hard to collect the correct amount of money for tariffs.