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So you can mentally separate the price the vendor charges from taxes imposed by the state when you pick up in the store but not when ordering internationally?



Not with an administration levying 250% tariffs one day and cancelling them a few hours later.

Tax policies change from the Truth Social post to the press conference.


It’s not an international purchase, though. Core Devices is a US company.


American components, russian components, all are made in Taiwan...


Pretty much all tech purchases are implicitly international. During the last Trump administration we were madly spinning up additional manufacturing capacity in Vietnam, because the full tariffs on China, had they come into effect, would have doubled the retail price of an Oculus headset (which is a US corporation, just as in this scenario)




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