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Comment by piokoch

20 days ago

Now it is 1.4 mln, in future this could be 1000 more, if this will help with overcoming tariffs. Check what happened with Germany export to Kazakhstan in 2022.

> Check what happened with Germany export to Kazakhstan in 2022

Can you elaborate? Tried searching for it, all i found is that Kazakhstan reported 500M exports to Germany, when it was actually 7B. But you were talking about Exports from Germany to Kazakhstan, which I wasn't able to find.

  • gp implies that those are goods which ended up in Russia after the EU war sanctions.

    • oh, that would make sense, yes. AFAIK Turkey was also used a lot to accidentally ship goods to Russia.

Of course, several of these islands with 10% tarrifs are ex-colonies of various EU countries. Of course any french manufacturer will send goods to the islands (0%) then from there to the US (10%) rather than pay 20%. It's obvious, then the US will notice and the island will go to 20% and so on. It's all completely hateful.