• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    the importer pays the tax

    Officially, but in reality the extra cost gets passed down to the consumers in all countries involved, following the usual recipe of the rich getting all the gains and the poor getting all the expenses.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, and we’d still all get fucked by this export as there are still a bunch of oligarchs left to bone us afterwards.