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I work in a place that sells chainsaws and we constantly have dudes from Central America and West Africa coming in to buy saws that they say they're FedExing to their cousin back home or something (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Is it like, hard to get chainsaws domestically in those countries for some reason?

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My wild hunch is that maybe chainsaws fall into some weird "machinery" classification with very high tariffs so it's far cheaper for a cousin to buy one in the US and ship it. If I'm right - the situation might have existed for decades or it might have happened sometime this year due to ~~President Deals~~ President Tariffs.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

This happened a few times under Biden too.