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They setup more factories in vietnam to assemble chinese parts. But this isn't really a thing they can do in 90 days.
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
They setup more factories in vietnam to assemble chinese parts. But this isn't really a thing they can do in 90 days.
- croes 2y agoYou just need a address in Vietnam, who checks if the factory exists?
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoFraud is fraud no matter what. But I don't think Vietnam will risk America's ire if they help China cheat.
- xracy 2y agoHow would they be risking it? Who is incentivized in this system to say that this product is actually coming from China? Is it the US government regulators who just lost their jobs? Or the Businesses themselves who don't want to pay higher tariffs? Is it China who avoids the tariff? Is it Vietnam who just got paid for doing nothing? The answer would typically be that the US gov't would monitor this. But that is not a muscle this administration is capable of. That would require nuance and strategy, and it's very clear from this move that this administration doesn't have that capability.
- cwillu 2y ago“The people who care don't know, and the people who know don't care.” The Lord of War, describing military corruption in the aftermath of the fall of the USSR.
- xracy 2y agoI feel like people need to understand how they are impacting the path of least resistance when they make a change. Your change is only successful if the path of least resistance must now go where you want it to go.
- bluGill 2y agoYou need a few people in a "living room" to put "made in Vietnam" stickers on things. That makes the living room a factory and so you are not legally tricking anyone even though your only part in the process is putting that sticker on.
- snickerbockers 2y agoReminds me of the old rumor that the city of Usa, Japan exists so they can print "Made in Usa" on exports. They actually don't do that and Usa has held its name longer than the actual United Stats has existed but it still makes for a good story.
- foogazi 2y agoWhy 90 days ? Don’t the tariffs take effect now - although with the flip-flopping who even knows anymore The foreign factory system is already in place for those that use it
- snickerbockers 2y agoif tariffs are applied based on the date of departure and not the date of arrival you can definitely get away with falsifying the date. And on the off-chance you get caught you feign confusion on account of the rapidly fluctuating circumstances and the customs guy lets you just pay whatever you owe without sanction because he has a million other people saying the same thing and even if he can tell you're lying he really doesn't care anyways. I have a friend who had to get something shipped from Australia to Germany via freight, he told me intercontinental freight shipping generally takes multiple months if you aren't Wal-Mart/Amazon and you aren't willing to pay out the ass for express handling. >The foreign factory system is already in place for those that use it ah but there's the small kernel of genius within the corncob that is trump's insanity: which foreign factories do you use and who will they take the shipment from and and wait fuck he just gave a 90-day extension less than a week in, will the factory let me have my money back if i cancel?
- matwood 2y agoApple has been preparing in this exact manner since Trump was POTUS last time.