Living in Costa Rica, as I do, but shopping at Amazon and Walmart, I get hit by this every day.
I have a workaround in the form of Aerupost, a company that owns a building in Miami that is a warehouse, where American companies can ship their goods. It then flies them all over the world, pays import duties, and delivers them to their customers.
The Rich and Powerful in every country get together periodically and decide how much to tax everyone else. If they tax rhen too much, ihis is bad for their retail businesses that they also own.
To bring Women's clothing from the US into Costa Rica, for example, you double the price. This is good for anyone with a sewing machine in Costa Rica, who can copy the latest fashions.
Marielos (who I used to live with) could do this, and employed two women full-time, copying clothing from her pattern book. Her company lived on the edge of the law: as long as it was small, the Big Guys did not bother her.
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