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I've never understood why that works. They clearly aren't slippers. They aren't sold as slippers. Nobody looks at them and says "nice slippers". Chuck Taylor importing their shoes as slippers feels fraudulent.

The tarrif document defines slippers and having fuzzy soles meets the definition.

Saves a bunch of money, so I'm not sure why any (imported) shoes are sold without fuzzy soles.

Tariff law doesn't just look at the label on the box. Otherwise there would be bigger problems.

Or how about the seats in Ford's transit vans?

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-p...

We had a scam in Poland decades ago, where companies could buy a station wagon with this metal grating between rear seats and the trunk [0], which was enough to classify the whole vehicle as a truck, which gave you tax breaks not available for passenger vehicles.

[0] https://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/QCvk9kpTURBXy83N2RiNjQ1...

Wait until you hear about the cars in Sweden that are “converted” to tractors so children can drive them without a license.

Wow, I had no idea! That is kinda clever and horrible at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aUnF80WY8R8