• vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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    8 hours ago

    This can easily be bypassed by making group orders, don’t know if the Chinese sites will bother.

    I import tea from China and Japan, wish there was good tea in Europe but that’s not the case and the nice stuff is absurdly overpriced or impossible to find, so I will not stop but I will do my best to avoid this stupid tax.

    • notsosure@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      Great! So by your selfish need to get your tea cheap from abroad, you are perfectly willing to accept that local producers of tea have to close down their business, and people in European lose their jobs.

      • mholiv@lemmy.world
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        As someone who drinks quite a bit of tea Europe really doesn’t have great tea. Like oolongs and pu’er really just don’t grow here.

        I mean if we keep up a perpetual heat wave and crank up humidity we might be able to do it, but as it stands we don’t have the climate (yet)

        It’s not selfishness. It’s just agriculture.