New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
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New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
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#2Curious how will this affect the Chinese sellers (both fake and genuine goods) on Amazon/Ebay?
Re: New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
#3Curious how will this affect the Chinese sellers (both fake and genuine goods) on Amazon/Ebay?
They will be as affected as any other importer I would imagine, but they might try to get away with letting they buyer discover the import costs as their packages get stuck in customs.
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#4If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount.
This is a 25% bump, a portion of which will be borne by the manufacturer, seller, shipper, and money handler.
I don't see how it's even close to possible for customs to intercept 50% of the mail coming in from China to ensure they've paid the tariffs.
So, things will range from unenforceable and unenforced, to a minor price increase, so small most of us would never notice. Akin to a minor currency fluctuation that everybody who doesn't use or peg to the US dollar has to deal with already.
If you can afford the time to be a maker, this will not impact anything at the end of the day.
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#5If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount. This is a 25% bump, a portion of which will be borne by the manufacturer, seller, shipper, and money handler. I don't see how it's even close to possible for customs to intercept 50% of the mail coming in from China to ensure they've paid the tariffs. So, things will range from unenforceable and unenforced, t…
This is just wrong. If the cost of food doubles, then price of eating merely increases by small amount ?? Where did you get that fact? Any studies??
Re: New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
#6Curious how will this affect the Chinese sellers (both fake and genuine goods) on Amazon/Ebay?
They will be as affected as any other importer I would imagine, but they might try to get away with letting they buyer discover the import costs as their packages get stuck in customs.
Most cheapo small ebay things are sent as 'fat letters'(up to a point) but be warned if the thing is an actual box, you'll enjoy both import fees AND additional random importation tax handling fees.
Re: New US Tariffs are Anti-Maker and Will Encourage Offshoring
#7If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount. This is a 25% bump, a portion of which will be borne by the manufacturer, seller, shipper, and money handler. I don't see how it's even close to possible for customs to intercept 50% of the mail coming in from China to ensure they've paid the tariffs. So, things will range from unenforceable and unenforced, t…
Generally I'd think that customs would enforce the bigger importers (via size weighted random selection), and slowly with their way down.
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#8If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount. This is a 25% bump, a portion of which will be borne by the manufacturer, seller, shipper, and money handler. I don't see how it's even close to possible for customs to intercept 50% of the mail coming in from China to ensure they've paid the tariffs. So, things will range from unenforceable and unenforced, t…
This is just wrong. If the cost of food doubles, then price of eating merely increases by small amount ?? Where did you get that fact? Any studies??
I think he's taking about the other parts of our food costs: distribution, storage, etc. Those won't be affected by tariffs, so they dampen the effects of the tariff a bit.
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#9Curious how will this affect the Chinese sellers (both fake and genuine goods) on Amazon/Ebay?
Larger sellers would count the tariffs into the pricing, or you can test your luck to see whether customs will pick your package or not.
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#10These new tariffs are posturing. Trump seems to understand how to negotiate and is willing to take short term hardship for long term gain.
We need to have balanced trade agreements. Not balanced in the sense of trade amount, but balanced in the sense of tariffs and subsidies.
Access to US consumers is a big bargaining chip. If China won’t deal, there are other countries that will.
I think we all understood we had an unhealthy relationship with China.