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>"Why SHOULD a cargo van have higher import taxes than a passenger van, other than to serve the needs of some random private company?" Have you read a tariff s
by nickff 5y ago
>"Why SHOULD a cargo van have higher import taxes than a passenger van, other than to serve the needs of some random private company?"
Have you read a tariff schedule? They're full of this stuff, which seem to be protections or favors for specific industries. Anti-dumping protections seem similar.
- RC_ITR 5y ago>It also goes to show how corrupt the import tax system is.
- nickff 5y agoI am not sure it is 'corrupt', though that may be a question of semantics. I didn't mean to disagree with you, just point out how rampant the issue was.
- secabeen 5y agoI don't think it's corrupt exactly, often these details are worked out in deals between the various countries or as retaliation for other unilateral increases. We lower your rate on rice to 6% if you lower our rate on chicken; if you raise your rate on our machine parts to 25%, we'll raise our rate on your cargo vans to 25%. Etc. It's part of the negotiations, and it often has nothing to do with the specifics of the items being tarriffed.