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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

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320 points goldenskye | 2 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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JSR_FDED ◴[16 Nov 25 00:41 UTC] No.45941785[source]▶
Tariffs are great. They protect the struggling domestic IT industry and gives it time to ramp up its production of vintage computer parts.
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1. tho1342834y9234 ◴[16 Nov 25 01:19 UTC] No.45941938[source]▶
Quite funny to see the US import the utterly disastrous "Import Substitution" model that destroyed India's fledgling industrial base that was left-over after the British left.
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2. jalapenos ◴[16 Nov 25 05:54 UTC] No.45943085[source]▶
Since it came from India shouldn't they be paying a tariff on that model