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Auto parts come to mind. Also there are plenty of products on shelves at big box retailers like Walmart that are made in China and won’t fall into the exempted categories.
Auto parts, but also autos.
This link is better: https://wccftech.com/trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-have-reported... Or, the primary source seems to be: https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-3db9e5... But you'd have to look up those codes to know they're for PCs, smartphones
The title is sensationalism when it should be phone and computer associated parts are exempted from tariffs or something like that.
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And if you build your tech in US, well, you are disadvantaged because you have to pay the tariffs on every component you import from China. So it’s actually an incentive to build in China.
So is your component in the list from a comment below - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665766 Then you don't pay the tariff.
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Tinfoil hat time, I don't think the man claiming everyone else cheated and who got caught cheating in a previous election got all his votes in a legal manner
All the data suggests the opposite. He wasn't in a position of power at the time; the federal government was controlled by the democrats. Elections are run at the state level and are so disparate procedurally that Russia gave up trying to flip them directly. There has been no discrepancy between exit polls and the results. We have to face the fact that this is who the United States chose, and this is who a significan…
I don't know about you, but I certainly don't trust all the companies that make the voting machines. For instance, does Musk own stock in some of them? Do their owners vote Trump?
There are valid reasons for tariffs: * https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/when-are-tariffs-good Especially when it comes to certain areas of the economy: > Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you alloca…
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Are you confusing the budget deficit with the trade deficit? Is that what all this is about? I spend far more on restaurants, household services, and vehicle maintenance than those companies pay me. I have a massive trade imbalance with those companies. But that has nothing to do with whether my household budget is balanced. Do people really think that making goods more expensive for consumers will somehow produce th…
> I spend far more on restaurants, household services, and vehicle maintenance than those companies pay me. I have a massive trade imbalance with those companies. And if, for example, a sales tax was increased this would motivate you to buy less services, make food at home and learn how to fix your car.
Are you moving the argument from conflating budget and trade deficits to saying the United States’ multi-century economic focus on consumer spending is a mistake, and we need to shift to a savings-focused economy like China used to be? I also think that’s wrong, but it has nothing at all to do with the federal government’s budget deficit.
Or are you under the mistaken impression that trade income is the only income the country has?
This is all very confused and nonsensical.
I am among the few who think it might eventually prove itself a good idea. To start with, Europe has no good cards to play. Ultimately, Europe will side with the United States while it builds self-sufficiency on several fronts, especially defense. Europe also recognizes that the complete relocation of production capacity into China wasn't good in the long run; it's just that they had no ability to act on their own. T…
If politicians no longer care about winning elections, then they might campaign on this.
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All the data suggests the opposite. He wasn't in a position of power at the time; the federal government was controlled by the democrats. Elections are run at the state level and are so disparate procedurally that Russia gave up trying to flip them directly. There has been no discrepancy between exit polls and the results. We have to face the fact that this is who the United States chose, and this is who a significan…
Elections are, in many if not most states, run electronically. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't trust all the companies that make the voting machines. For instance, does Musk own stock in some of them? Do their owners vote Trump?
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/mattblaze.org/post/3lmgt4ufllc26
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But what about leaking information about it?
Leaking is vague. What part of what law?