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seanmcdirmid 12 hours ago

I doubt the Americans will let them do that so easily.

tzs 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

So they will have to bribe officials in Vietnam or Mexico and bribe officials in the US.

phil21 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They already are. Just one tiny well-explained example, although it's utterly rampant:

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/1197961495/the-trade-fraud-de...

No bribery required though, at least in most cases.

seanmcdirmid 9 hours ago | parent [-]

They tried stockpiling aluminum in Mexico during the Trump ban and that was shutdown quickly. I guess they just have to be more convoluted about it. I wonder if Trump will do something like “tariff China and any country that doesn’t tariff China itself (transitive)”, but it feels like it might be futile to do that.

torginus 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The alternative is having empty shelves in stores.