Your statement there implies that the intention is related to such a price point. I suspect that's wrong, and that they didn't even try to calculate those pric

Your statement there implies that the intention is related to such a price point. I suspect that's wrong, and that they didn't even try to calculate those price points, which will vary per kind of good, not per country. If the per-country tariffs happen to match those unknown numbers they didn't even try to calculate, that can't be due to intention, it can only be dumb luck.