This is nothing new. The number of hoops a former employer had to jump through to export, from the US into the EU, what amounted to a steel bar with some brackets on it was almost worth more in salary hours than the entire value of the sale.

> The number of hoops a former employer had to jump through to export, from the US into the EU

Makes perfect sense to make ordinary Americans pay tariff/taxes on imports in return. Sucks to be them.