Re: Note : Pi 2 Zero W Now RIP-OFF Price on Amazon

On 06/08/2026 19:31, s|b wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 14:16:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> On 06/08/2026 13:34, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 2026-08-05 19:46, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>>> Well in a way it has. China has an (unspoken?) arrangement that as
>>>> long as VAT is paid - and Aliexpress does that - stuff get posted over
>>>> really cheap on massive shipments that get split up and reposted in
>>>> the destination country and there are no 'big beautiful tariffs' on it
>>>> at all.
>>>
>>> There is a new tariff on import of small Chinese items here.
> 
>> So glad to be out of the EU and into the free trade area of 'the rest of
>> the world'
> 
> In Belgium it's 3 euro per item. If you're buying 100 t-shirts, it's 3
> euro. If you're buying 100 t-shirts and 50 phone cases, it's 3+3 euro.
> If you buy 1 t-shirt and 1 phone case, it's 3+3 euro.
> 
>> Food from Africa, South America, components from China. White goods and
>> electronics from SE Asia...
> 
> No tariffs?
> 
No. We have trade deals with all of them. Deals that we couldn't get 
while in the EU.

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