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The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics

124 pointsby elashri25 days ago

10 comments

JKCalhoun25 days ago
Yeah, my electronics hobbies are probably severely curtailed. I am assuming that the cancelling the de minimus exception is the real killer. I assume I can no longer afford PCBWay, AliExpress.<p>Recent purchases I am not likely to be able to afford: NVIDIA TESLA M40 cards from China I found on eBay and a &quot;mining rig&quot; mother board from AliExpress. (Was putting together a, formerly, inexpensive local-Llama rig.)<p>To be sure, these are things I don&#x27;t <i>need</i> but they were on the cusp of affordability from the point of view of a hobbyist and so I indulged — and I will not now because they will now cross that threshold.<p>And I expect to see the price double on my Zenni glasses going forward. I used to like to find old medium-format cameras from Asian countries on eBay (probably not now). I already bailed on purchasing what would have been my first drone with what has happened to the prices on them.
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wing-_-nuts25 days ago
I&#x27;ve honestly never understood the point of the tariffs.<p>1. They&#x27;re <i>massively</i> unpopular and likely to cause electoral losses in &#x27;26 and &#x27;28 which will immediately undo them<p>2. Consumers know the tariffs will likely cause a recession, and will likely be undone in 4y. Pretty much every major spending purchase that can be delayed, will.<p>3. Companies know 4y is not enough time to invest in new supply chains or new manufacturing plants. Given sinking demand they will shed jobs and hunker down for the duration.<p>I can tell you, for myself? Any major purchases are now off the table. I will happily keep my 18 year old car running instead of buying a new honda civic. I&#x27;m perfectly content with the devices I currently have. I will root and install a third party rom instead of buying a new phone. My 3090 will happily play old &#x2F; AA games for the duration. Travel will likely be reduced thanks to the weak dollar and anti us sentiment in general.
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energy12325 days ago
These tariffs will have a deindustrializing effect for complex goods.<p>- Exemptions for electronics<p>- Unemployment at 4%, no labor to work in factories<p>- Raw inputs now 10%+ more expensive, meaning worse international competitiveness<p>- Policy uncertainty deterring investment
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jameslk25 days ago
&gt; The estimates become highly dependent on how influential China is for final assembly.<p>The article mentions this but then doesn’t go much further into it. But this will likely be the biggest factor with tariffs.<p>China will still produce the electronics and many other goods, but then the goods will be shipped to another country for “substantial modifications” before being shipped to the US to evade the US tariffs on China
andsoitis25 days ago
&gt; China could continue to produce smartphones for Europe, Asia, and Latin America.<p>And Africa. Asia and Africa are at the forefront of mobile money adoption.
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gramie25 days ago
I checked the article just to see if the IEEE actually spelled &quot;tariffs&quot; wrong (they didn&#x27;t).
jmclnx25 days ago
I wonder if this will heat up the used market. In Oct Windows 10 will go EOL unless you start paying M&#x2F;S. For windows 11 many people will need new hardware.<p>I wonder if M&#x2F;S will pull back on their requirements. Of course people could move to Linux :)
simonebrunozzi25 days ago
typo in the title: tarrifs should be tariffs.
spencerflem25 days ago
I was trying to buy a laptop yesterday and the ones reviewed three months ago as &quot;best laptop under $1000&quot; are all $1500
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mindslight25 days ago
Let&#x27;s just call it what it is - a national sales tax. The only way significant bottom-up manufacturing ecosystems would come back to the US would be through targeted government investment, long term stability, and effective anti-trust enforcement - all things beyond the current administration. If three decades of economic neoliberalism was a steamroller crushing our industrial base, the Trumpist solution is to just throw it in reverse and destroy what domestic industry <i>had</i> managed to spring up in its wake.<p>I would have thought that despite the general comfort with hypocrisy of the larger Republican party, they would at least have reacted against <i>overtly raising taxes</i> especially to levels of <i>hundreds of percent</i>. But nope, use one synonym and whatever Dear Leader says goes. It&#x27;s truly a cult.
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