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Comment by mapt

5 days ago

Wait, what?

So I can buy my carton of 120 iphones if I pay a $100 package fee, instead of $200,000 at the 120% rate?

Alternately: My Chinese excavator only costs $100 in tariffs?

Can someone give me pseudocode here?

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detaro  5 days ago

Neither of those are going to be postal service packages with a De Minimis value (<$800).

  • mapt  5 days ago

    Could you unpack the idea further?

    There are plenty of things where Temu charges $2.00 and I would be fine paying a 120% tariff on that to bring it to $4.40, because Amazon is charging $8.99 and retailers are selling a seventy pack for $30.

    But I would not be fine paying a $100 tariff to bring it to $102.