A design can be copyright -- a automobile, furniture, anything really but why pay twice for the same thing? Apply this same logic to intellectual property the item cannot be resold over and over (copies made for sale ) but the original item paid for can be resold, i.e.; a used CD. However, why should the resale be prohibited only for foreign goods?

If a USA business sells a product for $0.39 in a foreign market and $0.99 in the USA -- why can that product not be imported and sold at a discount here? The seller wants his rip-off marketing protected domestically by his subsidy of higher USA sale prices?

Outsourcing or international trade is a two edged sword -- crocodile tears ...