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greatgib ◴[31 Aug 25 11:21 UTC] No.45082325[source]▶

I don't understand why there isn't a market or company that develop already to move all items to low tariff area before sending to US.

I know that manufacturing things here in Europe, there already used to be round trip by airplane and co to try to lower VAT paid on purchases to the maximum.

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1. makeitdouble ◴[31 Aug 25 15:06 UTC] No.45083740[source]▶

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Vietnam is partly that. Production virtually "moved" from China to Vietnam pretty fast with various degrees of fakery. Not every company can pull it up, Nintendo for instance if probably more legitimate than others, but that's a thing.

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