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by cjk2 733 days ago
One of the many reasons. The biggest reason the last place I worked at that did manufacturing was that there were import tariffs on components but not assemblies so they just built the assemblies in China.
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Wow: Import tariffs on components and not on assemblies sounds like corruption to me. No policy maker can be this incompetent
It's not corruption. It's naive legislation written by idiots and complex HS code manipulation.
I'm not in the US. There are other countries with this problem :)