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US #Customs and #Border Protection Plans to #Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car

A #CBP spokesperson tells WIRED that the agency plans to expand its program for real-time face recognition at the border, potentially aiding #Trump administration efforts to track people who self-deport.
#privacy #facialrecognition #biometrics #selfdeport #deport #immigration

wired.com/story/cbp-face-recog

WIRED · US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by CarBy Caroline Haskins

US #Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for #Pregnant Women and Infants

CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect #vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
#cbp

wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-p

WIRED · US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and InfantsBy Dhruv Mehrotra

Is this real?
Does this sound real? If a US company ships to Canada expecting the customer to pay tariffs & they don’t, the US company gets hit with tariffs just to receive the return??

“So the weirdest thing happened, I had received an email from #UPS stating that they have a package that needs to be returned back to us because a customer in #Canada who ordered from us flat out refused to pay the usual custom fees & duties plus the #tariff costs. Even I thought the amount sounded outrageous and someone was lying so I contacted the customer and she stated they wanted an additional $100 for the products and she didn’t realize how much or how high the costs were due to the tariffs and proceeded to ask us for a refund. I said even though we never allow refunds on cosmetics, we will make an exception this one time minus all the shipping costs and fees if any. I proceeded to call ups and tell them to go ahead and return the package back to us and we approve UPS to go back into our account again and take the return shipping fee this time around for $38 “Return Shipping Costs” to the USA, I explained to ups that we are going to get our money back through the customers refund. The UPS Rep said, “I hope her refund is big enough to cover all cost because $38 is just for the return shipping, we Will also Need the #customs fees, duty taxes & any #import #fees for this box to be shipped back to The United States”.. Total costs: $169 - I couldn’t believe it and said this is something I’ve never experienced or had to deal with in the 7 years I’ve been in business shipping worldwide! So I told UPS to just keep it or Destroy it! At the end it was not worth us paying out all that money to Ship these two little skincare items back to the USA that were worth $50 bucks Each. I explained to the customer there is no zero funds being returned to her and after all fees have been calculated, we would have owed her five dollars for a refund if that. so refusing the package is the worst thing you can do cause now you are out the money and the products just like we are.”

alojapan.com/1254737/trumps-tr Trump’s Trade War With China Puts Japan in a Tight Spot #China #Customs(Tariff) #DonaldJ #EconomicConditionsAndTrends #InternationalRelations #InternationalTradeAndWorldMarket #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #trump #UnitedStates As Washington and Beijing wage an intensifying trade war, Japan is caught in the middle of the fight. Japan sells a large amount of cars to the United States, and computer chips and chip-making equipme…

alojapan.com/1248307/trump-has Trump Has Mixed Emotions Toward Japan ##shigeru #Abe #Customs(Tariff) #DonaldJ #InternationalTradeAndWorldMarket #Ishiba #Japan #JapanNews #news #PoliticsAndGovernment #Shinzo #trump #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment This month in the White House’s Rose Garden, as he held up a placard showing the global wave of tariffs he wanted to impose, President Trump paused to fondly recall a fallen frie…

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@kobilacroix OFC #Greedflation will mean that corporations like #Apple will just 1:1 the prices even if the #USD:#EUR goes 2:1.

  • They already did it that in the past, and when the $:€ was >1,60:1, it was cheaper for folks to fly to #NYC, sleep one bight in a hotel, buy an #iPhone and fly back to #Germany with #customs & #ImportTax paid...

And yes, I knew a time when people got paid to order for pickup Apple devices in the #USA, fly back with them and properly declare them at customs because even at 2x19% tax + buying new chargers it was cheaper than accepting 60% price gouging.

  • So just because the #iPhone will get 104% tariffs in the #US and the #EU production never enters the US it'll likely get parity by numbers because Apple always flexes numbers in disadvantage for buyers!

Also no #retailer will accept sucking up the losses, cuz even if Apple were to make 80% margin on their devices at their stores, they'd be in the red without raising prices...

  • But in essence you're correct: #Consumers WILL GET SHAFTED and not the corporations - that's how it's always been! (Ask Brazilians about non - domestic-built game console prices!)…

alojapan.com/1239638/trumps-ta Trump’s Tariffs Imperil the Fortunes of a Nissan Factory Town #automobiles #Customs(Tariff) #DonaldJ #FactoriesAndManufacturing #InternationalTradeAndWorldMarket #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #Kanda #KyushuJapan #news #NissanMotorCo #trump Kanda, a small town encircled by mountains on Japan’s southeast coast, is hundreds of miles from any major centers of business or politics. But recently, the only thing on its residents’ minds is President…