The fact is that this strategic tariff aversion plan, which is as legal and common as off-the-shelf tax minimization software at Best Buy, was the brainchild of the U.S. domestic furnitureindustry before it filed the case in 2004.
It is testament to the laughably modest standards for finding a domestic industry injured by reason of dumped imports that duties were ever imposed in the furniture case.
Furniture stores have higher margins and convenience stores have very small ones but no matter what the industry a drop in margin has an impact on the bottom.