stackyFACTSThe materials on the bottom of your feet trigger completely different tax brackets. Importers sometimes add thin layers of cheap material to shoe soles solely to manipulate which bizarre tariff classification applies.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Economy →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Automakers will gladly build components just to destroy them if the math works out. To avoid cargo tariffs, vans are imported into the US fully equipped with…
Discover more
Customs schedules are a terrifying maze of arbitrary distinctions. At various points in history, tools specifically modified for left-handed people were…
Discover more
In a masterclass of legislative self-sabotage, US politicians decided to "protect" domestic farmers during the Great Depression by passing the Smoot-Hawley…
Discover more
What is inside the bear matters more to the government than the child playing with it. Tariffs fluctuate wildly depending on whether a toy is filled with…
Discover more
International trade is terrifying when your goods are floating on a stormy ocean. Enter Incoterms like FOB (Free On Board) and CIF (Cost, Insurance, and…
Discover more
Subaru engineered a brilliantly stupid way to evade the infamous chicken tariff. By bolting cheap, dangerous plastic seats directly into the open beds of…
Discover more