We're not talking about pirated goods here, but what's often called the "gray market""”legitimate products that aren't authorized for U.S. sale. Those products are usually priced lower, because they're intended for less-affluent markets than the U.S. Costco and Kmart have sold those types of products in the past and gotten into legal trouble. This ruling says they won't have that trouble again (at least until Congress changes the law or product manufacturers come up with new arguments). But there are much bigger e-commerce implications in the court's decision to get rid of those geographical limits.

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