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Updated 24 Oct 2026

Parts Pay 62.5 Per Cent. The Finished Flashlight Pays 25.

A finished flashlight enters the United States at 25 per cent. Its parts enter at 62.5 per cent and its cell at 53.4 per cent. That inversion is worth USD 231.75 million a year — 26.9 per cent of the entire first-sale market — and it is decided by which ten-digit code a broker selects.

Consumer Goods & Retail Home, Kitchen & Household Products

Updated 18 Oct 2026

The Only Plastic Bag the Caribbean Ban Exempts

Barbados banned petro-based plastic bags from January 2020 — and explicitly exempted any bag designed and retailed for waste disposal. The bin liner is the category the Caribbean's plastic bans created.

Consumer Goods & Retail Home, Kitchen & Household Products