Amazon documents reveal company's strategy to dodge India's regulators

[r0n0j0y]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-india-operation-special-report-idUSKBN2AH1HS

[mtmail]

Discussion when the story was published https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26167352

[pmiller2]

This all just sounds like "blah blah incentives blah blah capitalism..." to me. Here's an example of an American company gaming the system: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15370925/feds-watching-fo...

TL;DR: Ford was importing cargo vans with extra seats so they qualify for a 2.5% import duty as passenger vans rather than a 25% import duty. It would take them 11 minutes to remove the extra seats so they could be sold as cargo vans.