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It's not just Western shipping parts. You can buy cheap Indian parts, and have the very, same insane shipping costs as with "Western" parts. Ie a 2€ part from India will still cost 25€, whilst the 2€ part from China will cost 2-4€

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Why is that? Is it simply a matter of scale (not enough shipping containers leaving from India to Trinidad and Tobago)?

In case of the China -> Europe and US routes it's certainly that the air fright traffic is heavily optimized and subsidized by China.

From India obviously not, so you have to pay normal shipping costs.

So primarily state intervention then?

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