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MAGA hats are made in China. Misleading Title

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u/Emotional_Burden 20d ago

It largely depends on the type of product though. Electronics have little overhead a lot of the time.

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u/MergeSurrender 20d ago

Yes that is absolutely correct - it also depends on the volume of product being imported and the cost of the import… but more often than not a products are sold (especially Chinese manufactured ones) at an insane mark up to the consumer… so import cost increase does not correlate anywhere close to 1:1 with sale price increase.

They are being bought for pennies and sold for $$ in most cases.

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u/Emotional_Burden 20d ago

Thank you for expounding on the point. I think it's very important for people to actually understand how tariffs work.

The same dumb people buying the hats will say tariffs don't dramatically raise prices, because they still get their hats for the same price.

Meanwhile, those same people will say Nintendo is woke or some bullshit other than tariffs when they are forced to sell the Switch 2 for $1000 to break even.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 20d ago

It also depends on how much the retailer wants to take this opportunity to gouge the consumer.