We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.
We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.
The only way to avoid the tariffs is to avoid any goods that cross borders during or after manufacture.
To still buy foreign products without paying the tariffs, you’ll have to buy those goods outside the US. Then, of course, you have the difficulty of getting them back into the country without, you know, paying tariffs.
Tariffs are not flat across the board. If it lasts, we’re going to see a lot of shell companies popping up in strategic places for the purposes of avoiding/reducing taxes paid.
Depending on the exact details, these may be little more than reshippers. Or they could be like the products that are “Made in the USA (from imported components)”