• ms.lane
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    011 days ago

    but why include Japan and Germany in this?

    To stop US companies routing shipments through Germany and Japan.

    • @[email protected]
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      010 days ago

      Precisely this. You route a shipment to an un-tarriffed/un-embargoed country, usually to a shell company or something, and then ship it to wherever using THAT country as the country of origin. It’s a pretty common way of avoiding arms embargoes.