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RE: It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Super Fu Wang!
The government is very protectionist and quite greedy. They charge a minimum of 60% over cost as "customs fees" If something costs 75 dollars and 25 dollars to ship it here (even if it's a gift), you will pay 60 dollars to get it out of customs.
For companies like "Doritos" or "Snickers" which we do have here. The companies are required to set up factories and make those products here in Argentina. Otherwise pay the ominous customs taxes.
I priced a Camaro 3 years ago. It cost $110,000 dollars (or 1.7mm pesos) at the time. I called my relatives to find out what the same car goes for in the USA. $30,000
You have to be crazy to ship anything here.
To ship in or out one has to be crazy. Started a website down here almost 2 years ago based on buy/sell/trade for our artwork and prints, yet a little research on the cost of shipping out an original piece put and end to the project right quick (not to mention the 2 lines, 3 hour wait at the post office once just to pick up a decent usb bluetooth shipped in from the us /facepalm/ ).
Yeah, I really don't know how the Asian populations gets so many things through customs. Maybe some trade deal with no tariffs?