It's an import tax, so removing it after the fact may be a legal loophole. Some US companies were doing that by e.g. adding pointless seats. One that ripped th

It's an import tax, so removing it after the fact may be a legal loophole. Some US companies were doing that by e.g. adding pointless seats. One that ripped the seats back out after import got fined (many, many years later), another one was leaving the (barely usable) seats in for the owners to rip out and IIRC got away with it.