The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
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Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#2Even better is the shoes (like chucks) that have fuzzy soles to be classified as slippers.
Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#3> certain women’s garments with “pockets below the waist” get lower duty rates than those without. Because of that, a number of the women’s shirts Columbia Sportswear makes are intentionally designed with tiny pockets near the waistline, which lowers the cost of importing them.
Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#4> certain women’s garments with “pockets below the waist” get lower duty rates than those without. Because of that, a number of the women’s shirts Columbia Sportswear makes are intentionally designed with tiny pockets near the waistline, which lowers the cost of importing them.
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Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#5Even better is the shoes (like chucks) that have fuzzy soles to be classified as slippers.
Or how about the seats in Ford's transit vans?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-p...
Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#6Of course the circumvention of the "chicken tax" is probably the most well-known example of tariff engineering:
> Ford imported all of its first-generation Ford Transit Connect models as "passenger vehicles" by including rear windows, rear seats, and rear seat belts. The vehicles are exported from Turkey on ships owned by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), arrive in Baltimore, and are converted back into light trucks at WWL's Vehicle Services Americas, Inc. facility by replacing rear windows with metal panels and removing the rear seats and seat belts. The removed parts are not shipped back to Turkey for reuse, but shredded and recycled in Ohio. The process exploits the loophole in the customs definition of a light truck; as cargo does not need seats with seat belts or rear windows, presence of those items automatically qualifies the vehicle as a "passenger vehicle" and exempts the vehicle from "light truck" status. The process costs Ford hundreds of dollars per van, but saves thousands in taxes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimated that between 2002 and 2018 the practice saved Ford $250 million in tariffs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Circumventing_the_...
Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#7Of course the circumvention of the "chicken tax" is probably the most well-known example of tariff engineering: > Ford imported all of its first-generation Ford Transit Connect models as "passenger vehicles" by including rear windows, rear seats, and rear seat belts. The vehicles are exported from Turkey on ships owned by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), arrive in Baltimore, and are converted back into light tru…
There was a Radiolab story fight about dolls vs toys
https://radiolab.org/podcast/177199-mutant-rights
Little blurb
…who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. "Dolls," which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of "toys," which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. As soon as they read that, Sherry and Indie saw dollar signs. it just so happened that one of their clients, Marvel Comics, was importing its action figures as dolls.
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So Sherry and Indie went down to the customs office with a bag of XMEN action figures to convince the US government that these mutants are NOT human.Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#8Of course the circumvention of the "chicken tax" is probably the most well-known example of tariff engineering: > Ford imported all of its first-generation Ford Transit Connect models as "passenger vehicles" by including rear windows, rear seats, and rear seat belts. The vehicles are exported from Turkey on ships owned by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), arrive in Baltimore, and are converted back into light tru…
There was a Radiolab story fight about dolls vs toys https://radiolab.org/podcast/177199-mutant-rights Little blurb …who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. "Dolls," which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of "toys," which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. As soon as they read that, Sherry and Indie saw dollar sig…
As if Marvel canon wasn't confusing enough already, now customs is involved? Sheesh.
Are we going to get a Troy Miller origin story? Bit by an improperly declared radioactive package, he dedicated his life to defending our borders from the Guild of Calamitous Import.
Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#9Of course the circumvention of the "chicken tax" is probably the most well-known example of tariff engineering: > Ford imported all of its first-generation Ford Transit Connect models as "passenger vehicles" by including rear windows, rear seats, and rear seat belts. The vehicles are exported from Turkey on ships owned by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), arrive in Baltimore, and are converted back into light tru…
There was a Radiolab story fight about dolls vs toys https://radiolab.org/podcast/177199-mutant-rights Little blurb …who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. "Dolls," which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of "toys," which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. As soon as they read that, Sherry and Indie saw dollar sig…
Life Contradicts Art?
Re: The reason your Columbia shirt has a tiny pocket near your waistline (2019)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a Radiolab story fight about dolls vs toys https://radiolab.org/podcast/177199-mutant-rights Little blurb …who noticed something interesting while looking at a book of tariff classifications. "Dolls," which represent human beings, are taxed at almost twice the rate of "toys," which represent something not human - such as robots, monsters, or demons. As soon as they read that, Sherry and Indie saw dollar sig…
Life Contradicts Art?
That was mentioned in the show. X-men is all about wanting to be accepted as equal human beings and now the creators are going to classify them as non human to save a buck.