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To: Lorianne

A forty percent tariff on a five dollar shirt would be around forty cents retail. Around the same amount as the massive sales tax most states charge.

If a shirt retails for $5. It costs around $1 to purchase. The rest is delivery, warehousing, merchandising, overhead and handling costs.


13 posted on 05/15/2016 8:38:36 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

It also takes into account that a textile product is among the most labor intensive of produced consumer goods.


14 posted on 05/15/2016 8:41:34 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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