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

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320 points goldenskye | 3 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | 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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Freedom2[dead post] ◴[16 Nov 25 01:25 UTC] No.45941960[source]▶
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1. charcircuit ◴[16 Nov 25 02:22 UTC] No.45942222[source]▶
If the seller from the country doesn't pay the tariff then it gets passed to the consumer. Someone has to pay the tarrif to import a tariffed good.
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2. JSR_FDED ◴[16 Nov 25 02:24 UTC] No.45942233[source]▶
Freedom2 was joking
3. nkrisc ◴[16 Nov 25 02:45 UTC] No.45942333[source]▶
It’s a joke about the administration’s line that the tariffs would be paid by other countries, not by American consumers.