I’m not saying I do or don’t support what it happening. However, a bit of thinking makes you realize how if he didn’t tariff every island of oceania, then Australia would start exporting goods from those deserted islands to avoid tariffs on a technicality. Again, I’m being completely neutral here. I know if the tables were turned, we’d find a crappy technicality like that as well
I think it's great that you're neutral, however I think you are missing some key information. When you export items to a country you are required to submit paperwork on the country of origin which includes bills of materials, manufacturing records, certificate of origin, factory location etc etc. Country of origin is very well defined. As what you are pointing out is a pretty obvious/easy way to get around tariffs, this was considered decades ago and accounted for.
This is why China built factories in other countries to bypass tariffs instead of just shipping it to the country, then shipping to America.
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u/CreamyChickenSauce 1d ago
I’m not saying I do or don’t support what it happening. However, a bit of thinking makes you realize how if he didn’t tariff every island of oceania, then Australia would start exporting goods from those deserted islands to avoid tariffs on a technicality. Again, I’m being completely neutral here. I know if the tables were turned, we’d find a crappy technicality like that as well