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Re:Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights by worik on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:06AM (#43855240)
> Like a tax,

It is a tax

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Re:Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights by badestrand on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:21AM (#43855344)
A tax on foreign labor, to be exact. (Not foreign products or materials per se).
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Re:Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights by atwrk on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:38AM (#43855471)
Actually it's an import tax - the importer pays it, not the foreign worker.
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Re:Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights by badestrand on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:36AM (#43857495)
Yes, true of course.

But I meant that if you take an example of tshirt production that gets sold in the US, with fabric that comes from Bangladesh, one producer in Vietnam, one in the US. The final price consists of materials, labor, shipping. Both effectively have materials and shipping tariffed and for the Vietnam company additionally the labor is tariffed.

So the only difference is the application of the tariff on the labor for the Vietnam company.

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