• BussyCat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It doesn’t matter if it’s data, tariffs are meant to be protectionist so you could easily say that since Nintendo is headquartered in Japan or because the majority of their workers are in Japan or because their name sounds vaguely Japanese that all sales of their product in insert country here has to pay an additional 10% tax

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      1 day ago

      I don’t THINK that’s how tariffs work - I’m pretty sure it’s physical goods only - but I’m no expert, so I guess we’ll see.

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        11 hours ago

        They currently don’t affect digital goods but there is no actual reason they couldn’t make one that does we are in some truly interesting times