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luna the doggie neofox_snug therian @lunareclipse@snug.moe
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Genuinely interested in some economist explaining the rationale behind the new EU tariffs for small orders from outside the EEA, I'm not really satisfied with the official communication nor the media coverage I could find of it.
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@lunareclipse from China?? it's for everything, all my shit from Japan also gets this
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@lunareclipse the reason this even existing is because they want you to buy locally
also known as, buy from european resellers of chinese shit for 300% the price
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0x4d6165 (Julie) @0x4d6165@transfem.social
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@lunareclipse @jeder so basically what trump is doing with better PR?
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@0x4d6165 @lunareclipse i don't think this creates such uncertainty that trumps shit did?
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luna the doggie neofox_snug therian @lunareclipse@snug.moe
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@jeder @0x4d6165 I mean yeah this sounds like it's gonna be stable for 2 years while they set up the infrastructure to digitally track every single item shipped with unique tracing identifiers, after which they will apply per-category percentage tariffs to everything
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0x4d6165 (Julie) @0x4d6165@transfem.social
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@lunareclipse @jeder why not /genq? it's the same protectionism?
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@0x4d6165 @lunareclipse it's not? trump did everything out of spite and on the whim, this is just expanding whatever was already a thing for packages worth more than 150€
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luna the doggie neofox_snug therian @lunareclipse@snug.moe
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@jeder @0x4d6165 it's kinda the same idea but the difference is that the tariffs aren't changing every day on a whim so everything is much more predictable. I think?
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0x4d6165 (Julie) @0x4d6165@transfem.social
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@lunareclipse @jeder hmmm, still seems kinda sus tbh but I'm always sus of protectionism and tariffs that effect everyday folks
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