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> If the economic hurt this causes to China is enough to drastically reduce the flow of fentanyl into the US What if the economic hurt this causes to China drastically increases the flow of fentanyl in the US?
Then block all trade outright with China if they show themselves willing to be so openly belligerent.
I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China. It's going to halt all our R&D for at least 6 months while we onboard domestic contractor alternatives --- which will also just generally be shit. Not to mention the American contractors WONT BE ABLE TO SHIP IN THE FUCKING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS FROM CHINA THEY NEED FOR THE PROTOTYPES.
Every single R&D department in the USA just got fuuuuuuuuucked by this.
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> We literally don't make much most of this stuff in the US Not said often enough is that we DONT WANT to make much of this stuff in the US. People seriously don’t get how remarkable it is that the U.S. is able to get other countries to send them actual usable stuff in return for pieces of paper that the U.S. prints. And how much richer this makes Americans. I don’t believe the U.S. should be fully free market. Clear…
The new problem is the factories making a lot of this stuff are heavily polluting, and we have little to no control over that because they are abroad. Part of a good climate strategy must involve regulating them somehow.
Oh, look! We've cut off shipments from China! Now you'll have to buy American. News flash: we can't afford to buy American. Why do you think we were shopping there. It's too late to fix it now - we no longer have the money or the ability to make the money to buy American and even if you gave more money to Americans, prices would just increase accordingly. Also, some of those products were paid for already. Someone ow…
> News flash: we can't afford to buy American. Oh come on now, how much more does an iPhone made in the US cost? Oh. Hmm.
So if you're worried about packages coming from AliExpress, you probably shouldn't be. The last several packages I ordered were shipped USPS with an origin of the US. Los Angeles was the origin of the last one I received with AliExpress Choice(tm). It may affect ebay purchases of electronic parts from Shenzhen though. Particulary if the vendors use the Chinese post office. I also ordered a Keychron keyboard last week…
A huge percentage of the nation's R&D efforts (for DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING) is going to be completely and utterly fucked if they can't rush-deliver niche items from China. This is a disaster.
And it's not just R&D! If you have a big factory here in the USA but you need a rare part/tool/electrical component to fix the factory - often the OEM you buy it from will ship it from their China warehouse and it'll arrive in 1-4 days.
As a person who works in domestic manufacturing, this seems really, really bad for domestic manufacturing.
Any idea why?? Presumably the tariff/trade debate?
The linked page is about a different notice. The correct webpage (that the linked page has linked to) is https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international... By the way, can anybody explain what's the significance about this submission?
Watch things in the US grind to a halt when you can't maintain them with cheap parts from China.
Oh, look! We've cut off shipments from China! Now you'll have to buy American. News flash: we can't afford to buy American. Why do you think we were shopping there. It's too late to fix it now - we no longer have the money or the ability to make the money to buy American and even if you gave more money to Americans, prices would just increase accordingly. Also, some of those products were paid for already. Someone ow…
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> If the economic hurt this causes to China is enough to drastically reduce the flow of fentanyl into the US What if the economic hurt this causes to China drastically increases the flow of fentanyl in the US?
Then block all trade outright with China if they show themselves willing to be so openly belligerent.
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The stated purpose of the tariffs is to stop the flow of fentanyl into the US (which kills over 70k Americans a year). If the economic hurt this causes to China is enough to drastically reduce the flow of fentanyl into the US then I suppose it will have accomplished its mission
OD deaths have also been plummeting since mid 2023, after rising greatly during the last half of Trump's first term, and to a lesser extent during the first half of Biden's.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/02/nx-s1-5283957/fentanyl-trump-...