• BorgDrone@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    Companies pay tariffs and pass the costs on to consumers. Tariffs ate declared illegal. Companies get a refund, pocket the extra money they charged consumers. Rich people got richer.

    Worked the last time so they do it again.

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
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      Different legal justification this time. They’re using a 1930 law about discrimination against US businesses. It’s clearly bullshit, but they’ve learned it doesn’t matter