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Comment by bad_haircut72

2 days ago

Its probably protectionism to protect/boost the domestic drone industry

What domestic drone industry?

  • It's right down the street from US domestic coffee, semiconductor, game console, laptop, rare earth mineral, graphite, and banana industries. All these US industries are protected by baseline and reciprocal tariffs.

  • Skydio and Freefly and a bunch of defense contractors. Skydio is pretty big, IIRC