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Wednesday Footwear Blogging

By ThinkProgress on Jun 20, 2007 at 5:14 pm

It seems the USA currently has high tarrifs on shoe and sneaker imports even though we don’t really have a shoe and sneaker making industry to protect. Who knew? But according to the DLC press release lauding the initiative, it’ll cost the government $2 billion a year (this all via Mike Crowley) which seems to be of remarkably little concern to the erstwhile budget balancers over there.

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