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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: 0.196s | 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. fcoury ◴[16 Nov 25 14:32 UTC] No.45945406[source]▶
It's interesting. I grew up in Brazil and if you don't know, we are very famous for having one of the most exorbitant importing tariffs in the world.

I thought that with time Brazil would modernize and get closer to the US in that regard. It's really sad to see the opposite happening.