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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by matt-p on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:12AM (#43567413)
Bizarre, tax/tariff evasion or "Mistake" does seem like the most likely explanation - yet US$1.4m is too little to bother evading tax on really. I mean that could be a refit on a boat or something -- $1.4Mn is literally nothing.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by chris_wot on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:04AM (#43567849)
Pity the Faulkland Islands, population 3,200 and about a million penguins. They have a 42% tariff.

Are you feeling great again, Americans?

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by codedokode on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:35AM (#43568146)
This is to protect domestic penguin manufacturers. Well thought!
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by matt-p on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:13AM (#43567926)
Yet they also are a British territory and the UK has a 10% tariff. What bonehead came up with that.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by piokoch on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:56AM (#43567782)
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.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by 4ggr0 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:49AM (#43568267)
> 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.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by gostsamo on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:14AM (#43568524)
gp implies that those are goods which ended up in Russia after the EU war sanctions.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by 4ggr0 on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:32AM (#43571210)
oh, that would make sense, yes. AFAIK Turkey was also used a lot to accidentally ship goods to Russia.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by matt-p on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:03AM (#43567843)
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.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by rob74 on Friday April 04, 2025 @03:27AM (#43579280)
The Guardian has investigated further: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...

In the case of Norfolk Island, it was apparently some mislabeled shipments from Timberland (based in New Hampshire, NH <-> NI) and from two companies based in Norfolk, UK.

For Heard & McDonald Islands, it was mislabeled machinery that actually originated in Austria and Germany.

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