Worse, Tom.
Landed cost, it's cheaper for me to get all Hammond products from the USA than within my own country. The exception is chokes, for some reason, which are the same.
Reason given to me is Hammond gets big tax breaks and subsidies for exporting, which they don't get for selling local.
That's the same reason a car manufactured in Ontario costs Canadians a good $10,000+ more than if the same Ontario made car is bought in the US.
We are the only country I know of whose system is set up to screw their own people... and are proud of it!
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