• samus12345@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    How could it? It’s just data, no physical goods are being imported. Do tariffs apply to phone calls from other countries?

    • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      9 hours 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

    • Lumiluz@slrpnk.net
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      22 hours ago

      Don’t know, use internet these days, but in ye old days taxes sort of applied to long distance calls in a way so I’m unsure