2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems

The fact we still have to explain what a tariff is because the president of the United States keeps lying about what a tariff is (and nobody in his circle bothers to call out his lies) pretty much summarizes the current state of the country.

Very informative post. The author does an excellent job breaking down the costs by subsystem.<p>I am very surprised there are price increases though. The current administration said prices would start coming down on day 1. Doesn&#x27;t seem like that&#x27;s happening.

Auto tariffs make perfect sense when you realize every car in the market except Tesla are going to cost 25% more starting next week.

So we have a small business absorbing costs (aka losing money) to postpone the effects of this policy on their customers, to their own detriment. The administration has already shown other industries that the policy will flip as soon as someone they pay attention to complains. If&#x2F;when that happens here, the business will have sacrificed for nothing. Would it be better for everyone to make the effects immediately obvious all the way down the chain?

As a person with 3 Puget Systems workstations in my house, always good to see our local custom computer gem mentioned. Those guys are excellent in both build and support.<p>I love the level, reasoned, intelligent tone. It is everything the current ignoramuses are not.

In order to combat inflation, the chocolate ration is being increased to 20 grams.

Note that these are near-term impacts. In the long term the listed prices may be undercut by domestic manufacturers popping up or expanding their product lines. I haven&#x27;t heard much analysis on that scale, but would be interested to read more if anyone finds some.

when Brazil had factories producing cpus clones that enabled McIntosh and pc xt clones to be sold, apple and others pushed the gov to intervene.<p>USA put on the table the suggestion of a tarif on Brazilian oranges imports, which was so profitable to the local elites there, they not only closed the two factories but also put an 80% tarif on electronics imports to rebuild them as a gesture of good will (explaining politically it was to foster legitimate innovation locally)<p>Brazil still have that tarif.<p>also, it&#x27;s funny how the usa tariffs today are hurting usa companies, but could be seen as a gesture of good will to other nations if you squint as much as Brazilians would have to then, to see the real picture.

Look, there is only one reason they could have to do this - to prepare for war.<p>There&#x27;s no other way to connect anyone&#x27;s goals with this action, and neither has there been any other route to electoral tolerance of self-imposed austerity.