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[jj2]

Now we are talking Economic here

[teknite]

FLash drives are very useful. And as to buying them from the internet, most retailers take great to package them so as to prevent any breakage, and to add flash drives tend to be pretty robust.

[Transparent Reality]

NickC, on Feb 18 2007, 06:03 PM, said:

No, I actually was like, what is he talking about? Before the Japan example. So thank you techkid.

And Transparent, if you think about it, we DO pay the tariffs, we all do. For example if 10 flash drives are shipped to the US and the tariff is 50 dollars, then each of the flash drives are increased by 5 dollars so the importer doesnt lose any money. Thus, the selling price increases. If we dont pay the tariff then the selling price shouldn't have increased by 5 dollars each flash drive.

And flash drives are an excellent way to carry data all over the place, its like a mini folder you are carrying around.

Like I said, the tariff may or may not incurr additional costs to the consumer. I did think about it, which is why I addressed this in my post:

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Consumers don't pay tariffs by the way. The importers do, which may or may not translate to higher costs for products.

And no, strictly speaking, we don't pay tariffs. If it's not documented anywhere like a receipt, we don't pay it. Sorry.

teknite, on Feb 19 2007, 09:03 AM, said:

FLash drives are very useful. And as to buying them from the internet, most retailers take great to package them so as to prevent any breakage, and to add flash drives tend to be pretty robust.

With those insanely hard plastic clamshell packages, they could stick a shipping label on a flash drive package, and it still would have gotten to us fine.