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

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320 points goldenskye | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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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xnx ◴[16 Nov 25 02:28 UTC] No.45942248[source]▶
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mlinhares ◴[16 Nov 25 04:35 UTC] No.45942807[source]▶
You'll have to remove the potatoes as well as those can come from Canada.
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1. boshomi ◴[16 Nov 25 14:15 UTC] No.45945307[source]▶
... watching TV and eating tofu from Argentina