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

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462 points JumpCrisscross | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source
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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. EasyMark ◴[31 Aug 25 23:22 UTC] No.45087977[source]▶
That's covered, if you try to go to an intermediary county and they find out they will raise your tariffs back up to 150% for breaking the deal, it's built in to the agreements
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2. zug_zug ◴[01 Sep 25 19:30 UTC] No.45095828[source]▶
That doesn’t really make sense… essentially the choice to do this isn’t in the hands of any nation, rather any business in the nation could try to do this and the government has no real way to know.

You could try to raise tariffs on a whole country because one company in that country was falsifying country of origin… but it’s inevitable