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  • This is simple but true because they won't be able to do it. Furthermore, if they did do it and all these factories opened up, they'd would end up with surpluses and nobody would be able to afford to import them. Commented Apr 16, 2025 at 21:34
  • Ain't you heard of dumping, i.e. selling domestically-produced surplus goods overseas at little to no profit - even at a loss ? EU did it with its 1970s butter mountains, wine lakes, tomato silos and so on that resulted from the Common Agricultural Policy. It was said that the butter mountain was periodically flogged off cheap to the Russians for a fraction of the EU supermarket price . . . Commented Apr 16, 2025 at 21:50
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    You can't sell products cheaply or otherwise, if all potential buyers have put tariffs against you in retaliation for your tariffs against them. Commented Apr 17, 2025 at 12:20
  • I haven't heard any announcements on trade tariffs or anti-dumping measures from Togo, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Afghanistan, etc. Commented Apr 17, 2025 at 13:01
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    allafrica.com/stories/202504030443.html Madagascar, for example: 47% tariff by the US. And Ivory Coast: 21% Commented Apr 17, 2025 at 15:19