>>11390974This is the dumbest post I've ever seen here.
We're not importing the retail transformers from Vietnam.
We're shipping materials to Vietnam for them to assemble then sending it back.
It's not like takara, who's making their own transformers in Japan (like wild force or whatever).
The value of a deluxe for tarrifs purposes is not the market value of the finished product once it reaches shelves. It's the cost assessed by the government for that product. Like home values not matching home prices.
If hasbro hires the manufacturing plant, the tarrifs don't kick in the same way that paying a third party company to produce your stuff and importing it over does. It's how much hasbro paid for them, not how much we do.
If hasbro was BUYING them to sell to us, there'd be a clear value: how much hasbro paid for it.
But when they're contracting the manufacturer, it's not cut and dry
Also
>>11391038Mentioned the successful X-Men lawsuit where they claimed enough of the X-Men toys weren't humans they can't count as dolls and got the power tariffs rate.
Tariffs are how the entire global economy has functioned for centuries, but America decided awhile back to shift away from tariffs because it would give the US a major edge in raising the standard of living. But it hasn't been working like that for 30 years, because that sort of thing is dependent on other economic factors, not just tariffs.
Also, Vietnam immediately sent someone to the US to hopefully sort it out. Part of the issue is Vietnam providing "last step" manufacturing to avoid the tariffs on China previously. Where they might be the ones who box up the product, but China makes it, etc.
