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September 20th 17, 10:40 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
JBeattie
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Buying and Selling
On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 1:38:00 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 12:40:59 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 8:44:38 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 7:44:56 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 9/19/2017 6:52 PM, somebody wrote:
On 2017-09-19 07:06,
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Or the brake pads from China, $2/pair and free ship. As I have always
said the postage fees are grossly lopsided between Asia and the US and
that is one of the core reasosn for our trade deficit. Except that most
politicians (except manybe one ...) do not understand that.
It's an international reciprocal postal treaty that no one worried about
when it was mainly U.S. residents of Chinese descent sending packages to
relatives in China. The origin country gets all the postage and the
destination country gets nothing with the assumption that the volume
will be roughly equal.
The small volume of direct-to-consumer low-value items from China is not
a core reason for the trade deficit. These items would still come into
the U.S. through other channels, at higher prices, were it not so cheap
to do international shipping from China, you'd just have a middleman.
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