Ulli01
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hallmark007 Posted at 4-29 08:55
I think you will find that drones in Europe have always been more expensive and this has been consistent for the last 5 years, how dji price their drones according to currency fluctuation I don’t know but I’m certain it’s a big factor, while the euro might be strong or weak today dji obviously have to make allowances when they decide to introduce their drone to market, I’m not fully qualified to know all tax laws and trade agreements China have with Europe and US, but I can tell you whatever the difference in price between Europe and US dji have always said this was a tax cost coming from Europe.
The consistency of this was shown over the last 12/16 months when the US added extra tariffs to Chinese imports when we seen drones like M2 being cheaper in Europe than US, I’m also certain that import taxes in Europe are not exactly the same as US import taxes as you are implying .
It might be, that DJI is telling the people that the reason for the higher price in Europe results in higher taxes, but if you have a look in the numbers, it reveals that this is just not true.
The regular taxes in the major markets are comparable. US has now the additional tariffs, as far as I know also still in force for that kind of product, and therefore I would expect the price much higher in US than in Europe.
But it is not, even with the tariffs!
So we get a product with less equipment, and, as far as I know at this time, even without the ID-System required in Europe for a drone like the Air2 starting out of January 21, for a remarkable higher price! |
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