The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics
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The many ways tarrifs will hit electronics
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#2I was trying to buy a laptop yesterday and the ones reviewed three months ago as "best laptop under $1000" are all $1500
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#3I was trying to buy a laptop yesterday and the ones reviewed three months ago as "best laptop under $1000" are all $1500
How is that for European buyers?
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#5Yeah, 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.
Recent purchases I am not likely to be able to afford: NVIDIA TESLA M40 cards from China I found on eBay and a "mining rig" mother board from AliExpress. (Was putting together a, formerly, inexpensive local-Llama rig.)
To be sure, these are things I don't need 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.
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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#6I was trying to buy a laptop yesterday and the ones reviewed three months ago as "best laptop under $1000" are all $1500
How is that for European buyers?
This touches on something I'm curious to see play out: How much shopping tourism will we see? If a laptop costs twice as much due to tariffs (as indicated by the forecast in the article) how many US consumers will wait with buying a new laptop or phone till they happen to be in another country? I'm also curious if we'll see a huge spike in smuggling which might give more justification for more spending on border security.
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#7I checked the article just to see if the IEEE actually spelled "tariffs" wrong (they didn't).
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#8Let'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 had managed to spring up in its wake.
I would have thought that despite the general comfort with hypocrisy of the larger Republican party, they would at least have reacted against overtly raising taxes especially to levels of hundreds of percent. But nope, use one synonym and whatever Dear Leader says goes. It's truly a cult.
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#10I was trying to buy a laptop yesterday and the ones reviewed three months ago as "best laptop under $1000" are all $1500
I tried using https://camelcamelcamel.com/ to find some examples of this, but no luck spotting obvious price increases.
Curious what brand you were looking at?