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Amazon documents reveal company's strategy to dodge India's regulators
- mtmail 6y agoDiscussion when the story was published https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26167352 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26167352
- pmiller2 6y agoThis all just sounds like "blah blah incentives blah blah capitalism..." to me. Here's an example of an American company gaming the system: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15370925/feds-watching-fords-run-around-on-chicken-tax-riles-customs-officials/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15370925/feds-watching-fo... TL;DR: Ford was importing cargo vans with extra seats so they qualify for a 2.5% import duty as passenger vans rather than a 25% import duty. It would take them 11 minutes to remove the extra seats so they could be sold as cargo vans.