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> "The US was given the go-ahead to impose tariffs on $7.5bn (£6.1bn) of goods it imports from the EU following a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on Wedne
by siruncledrew 7y ago
> "The US was given the go-ahead to impose tariffs on $7.5bn (£6.1bn) of goods it imports from the EU following a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on Wednesday."
After reading this, I had the stupid question:
Couldn't producers of tariffed goods in an EU country send their goods to a shipping hub of a nearby non-EU country to change the country of origin to avoid the tariffs?
Example: Could or could not Scottish whisky producers send their bottles to be shipped from Iceland to America to avoid the tariffs?
My presumption of the article is that places matter more to the tariffs than the actual goods themselves sourced from anywhere else (?).
- caf 7y agoIt's the production location. Maybe you could ship it in barrels and bottle it in Mexico or something though.
- p2t2p 7y agoIf they “sell” it to a firm in Iceland and then said firm sells it to US does the same apply?
- p2t2p 7y agoThat’s what they did for Russian sanctions. We had nice prawns, freshly caught in Belarus. Belarus is a magical place, we also had some oranges and other tropical fruits from there. Suddenly it became a major producer of cheese and so on ;-)