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I cannot imagine the scale of the economical damage of all this...
In the StarTrek style future you could get anything you need for free. We're just exiting the era where we were having anything we wanted for $9.99 or whatever low silly price the people in Guangdong and Dongguan were ready to accept. Is there a difference between the free and low silly price? Yes, the low silly price still makes you not-that-wasteful like the free could. Anyway, it is the end of an era. And it wasn'…
So...you can't buy anything over $800 to the US now from other countries?
You have to satisfy the business requirement, which may be pretty easy to do. I am not sure. Just indicate it's for your side hustle business.
The footgunning unravels the US economy in myriad ways with unintended consequences. Brain drain, tourism, and higher prices with stagflation are just the beginning. It will take a few months to a year, but I think the disillusionment will slowly sow the field for competency and compassion.
What do you mean by this, and why do you consider it plausible?
The mass media and way too many people continue to say "surely the Trump administration will see reason and admit failure" when they have NEVER ONCE done that in the last 9 years.
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It doesnt apply to businesses. And, consumers importing amounts over $800 is probably fairly unusual.
> And, consumers importing amounts over $800 is probably fairly unusual. Not true. It’s common to receive phones and laptops shipped internationally from Apple, for example. I don’t understand why some people are searching for ways to dismiss and downplay this in these comments. DHL is doing this because the volume of processing was excessively high now that the thresholds are lower. That means a lot of packages were…
"I don't do it, therefore it is unusual for it to happen in the first place."
It's very hard to take dismissive, flatly stated comments like GP's in good faith. I usually expect better from this site, but a lot has changed in the last few years.
I cannot imagine the scale of the economical damage of all this...
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It doesnt apply to businesses. And, consumers importing amounts over $800 is probably fairly unusual.
That's basically every Prusa sale unless you're buying from Printed Solid.
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It doesnt apply to businesses. And, consumers importing amounts over $800 is probably fairly unusual.
Is it unusual to buy a laptop, stereo equipment, or things for pretty much every hobby from abroad? Can you buy a bike for less than $800? A camera (Say from Japan perhaps)? A good fountain pen from Japan, Germany or Italy?
The basic idea was that they'd figure out the tariff on everything they shipped during a time period as if it was done in one shipment, pay that, and then do individual shipments.
I suspect that something like this will happen.
Of course, there will be auditing to ensure that companies don't pay tariffs on $10M worth of goods when the actual total is $100M, but that's doable.
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I mean, how often is it really necessary for an ordinary consumer to directly import stuff? The last time I imported from an overseas order, I was enthralled by a hot blonde Irish singer and buying all her CDs, but most of them were also on eBay from American sellers who already did the messy work of importing goods.
Many companies ship directly from their factories in Mexico or Canada. Many consumers order parts internationally for hobbies or even professional products. Just because you don’t do it doesn’t mean it’s going to negatively impact a lot of people.
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> And what an odd comment to use a throwaway for... Certain people seem to use throwaways for every comment or spree of comments.
Those people are breaking the site guidelines: > Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html