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Re:BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can ... by georgefrowny on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:42AM (#46354040)
If in Europe, they're going to "fix" that with a €3 flat fee per item to cover "import duty" under €150 in July (on top of VAT which is already charged since 2021).

Which a huge scam, because there's no way that an average €10 Euro widget has a 30% tariff on it, and I'm pretty sure that very many things things are 0%.

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Re:BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can ... by pjc50 on Monday December 22, 2025 @09:28AM (#46354368)
3 euro is actually reasonable just to even out the delivery costs - it is usually cheaper to post something from China than it is intra-EU, because of the international postal union rules.
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