The Australian government will lift import tariffs on a wide range of consumer goods including toothbrushes, chopsticks and pens in an effort to lower rising household living expenses and business costs.
Is there a reason you can’t make toothbrushes and chopsticks in Australia?
short answer is no, but these felons can get lazy
We don’t make stuff here. We dig up resources, ship them to China, and buy it back from China in the form of various products.
Along the way billionaires in both countries make a lot of money and a lot of pollution is made shipping things back and fourth across the globe.
We make some things here. Beer, Chiko Rolls…umm…we used to do cars.
What makws you think they can’t? Reducing tariffs on imported toothbrushes is an excellent way to reduce the sale cost of domestic toothbrushes.
This is dumb. If people are paying the price, that’s the price and this will just allow the companies to scrape more money off the top. Removing taxes and regulation does not lower prices in a rigged economy because there is no reason for one global company to undercut the others when it can just sit back and enjoy the game as it is.
Whenever any new fees or taxes are introduced they pretty much always get passed to the customer as price increases or gradual decreases in how much product is in the package. There needs to be some means of regulating the price changes of at the very least daily necessities for any instances of this kind of change to work in either direction.