• artyom@piefed.social
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    19 days ago

    Huh? No, it’s the opposite. You should really look up how tariffs work. They drive up prices for goods manufactured outside the US. Local goods are unaffected, giving them a competitive advantage.

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      19 days ago

      I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious. You do know that the vast majority of the chips in all the devices you use are not manufactured in the US? Doubling the prices of the chips imported to manufacture devices here will obviously jack up the prices of those devices

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        19 days ago

        Why wouldn’t I be serious? If they’re manufactured outside the US then they’re obviously not manufactured in the US?

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          19 days ago

          I believe they’re referring to products made in the USA that contain chips.

          As in importing chips would be 100% but importing a product that contains chips would be 15%?

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            19 days ago

            The tariffs only apply to the imported products. That’s how tariffs work. If you import components into a US product then you only pay the tariff on those components, not the entire product.

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              19 days ago

              The tariffs only apply to the imported products. That’s how tariffs work.

              Right.

              If you import components into a US product then you only pay the tariff on those components, not the entire product.

              Isn’t that in agreement with OP? Any products made in USA that contain chips will cost more to make due to the 100% tariff on the chips.

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                19 days ago

                Isn’t that in agreement with OP?

                No, OP said it only applied to US products. It’s applied to all imported products. That’s what a tariff is.

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                  19 days ago

                  So any product containing chips will have a 100% tariff applied?

                  Edit: product imported to the USA

                  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                    19 days ago

                    It’ll probably be 100% tariff for the chip, and whatever the rate is for that country on the rest of the product. That’s assuming they go into that much detail, because if they don’t, it would be easy to dodge.