Wednesday, August 8th 2018
PC Hardware to Get Pricier Stateside as 25% Import Tariffs Take Effect Late-August
The ongoing US-China trade-war is going to jack up prices of PC hardware and other electronics products made in China (PRC). This will also affect prices of products made by American companies that are manufactured in China. A new tranche of goods and services prescribes a 25 percent import tariff on "electronic integrated circuits: processors and controllers," "electronic integrated circuits: memories," "electronic integrated circuits: amplifiers," "electronic integrated circuits: other," which about covers all PC hardware. This tariff takes effect on August 23, 2018.
A component costing $100 at a US port, could be inflated to $125 before Federal and State taxes are applied, not to mention costs of the rest of the supply-chain, leading up to your retailer and their margins. Not all PC hardware is made in China. Goods imported from Taiwan (ROC), South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia (the other known countries where PC hardware is manufactured), remains unchanged. China remains America's biggest source of electronics imports.
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CNN
A component costing $100 at a US port, could be inflated to $125 before Federal and State taxes are applied, not to mention costs of the rest of the supply-chain, leading up to your retailer and their margins. Not all PC hardware is made in China. Goods imported from Taiwan (ROC), South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia (the other known countries where PC hardware is manufactured), remains unchanged. China remains America's biggest source of electronics imports.
194 Comments on PC Hardware to Get Pricier Stateside as 25% Import Tariffs Take Effect Late-August
In any case, unemployment is pretty low. Not sure how it's related to manufacturing though.
And Japan just took back the 2nd spot in stock market value. China isn't doing as well as the media would like apparently.
Neither one of these nations are not willing to give up $25+ billion worth of arms sale.
Back to the POST, this means less frequent hardware upgrades. Prices of RAM and GFX cards are already hiked up and I can only speculate how this will affect consumer hardware or my next GPU upgrade. This reminds of cryptocurrency scenario all over again.
And the cigar stuffer - He did it while in office - Literally.... Lied about it and is being called a hero for doing it yet the left has gone nuts over something that might have happened in someone's private life years ago well before they were even a candidate, much less in office period. At least if he did he had the decency to do it on his own dime and not to get it all under the desk or all over the Oval Office itself.
I mean those cigars weren't free and I can promise you he didn't buy them, we did.
Hypocrisy at it's finest.
With all the damage done in the previous years it's no wonder there's going to be alot of "Pain" to get things back to a decent state here concerning the economy.
True - Blame can be laid on BOTH sides, not just one or the other for it but this guy is the first that's produced any tangible results in recent memory.
Trade wars aren't something that was invented yesterday, they've been going on all through history itself, we're just experiencing the latest version of it and yes, things do get harder to find and buy as a result, that too being nothing new.
I personally didn't care though. Special prosecutors are too relentless to be a good thing, no matter who is being investigated.
C'mon.
They all do.
We could go on but no need and frankly it woudn't serve any use since it can be done by both sides all day long yet nothing changes.
Do know Politics and Prostitution are the two oldest, dirtiest professions in the world with the same basic thing going on.... It's just a matter of who's doing what to whom and who's getting paid over it that determines the difference between them.
I would hope everyone would at least like to see China lose though. The leaders/politicians of various countries sold their citizens out to give China the strength it has now. All under some deluded geopolitical model that "manufacturing" is just an early stage in a nation's development, where it's "meant" to be shoved off eventually, and said nation "graduates" to just focusing on Service. This is a lie.
What's funny is this was a product of 80s thinking (Thatcher/Reagan especially)… it'd be incredibly ironic if the guy who spearheads the reversal is Mr. 80s himself: Donald Trump.
Was wanting to put off new computer purchase until at least Q4 but because of this, it looks like my deadline moves up to August 23.
Say what you will about either Clinton, they both understood the value of shutting up.Inevitable from the moment this thread was penned by it's very nature IMO.You know what? I agree with that. It just has absolutely no relevance to why Trump is outright bad for our image, and honestly, our nation. It's all because he doesn't know when to shut up.
You couldn't make this crap up
But again he's not one to back down, at least he has that.Again I have to agree, this was a political thread right from the start.Honestly I'd rather have someone that at least backs up what they say than someone that flip-flops.
That does create a bad image, one of weakness in a world where everyone else is out to get what they can - Even YOU if possible.
It's just human nature to do so as history has proven time and time again.The deal Carter signed with China was the catalyst that started this mess, the US was doing well enough before we became entangled with China trade-wise - At least Trump is trying to fix it so maybe it won't be so bad later but it's bad enough now there is going to be alot of pain and the longer you wait, the more it's gonna hurt.
Annnnnd..... I'm done with this thread.
As for the article, I think if sales in the US are high enough, hardware manufacturing could theoretically be increased in the other existing manufacturing countries (which does not include the US). The factories in China should be safe due to the demand from the rest of the world. But I'm pretty sure US PC hardware sales numbers are nowhere near high enough justify such a thing (not to mention the startup costs and delay). Other than that, this is just an obvious and expected outcome of the US-China trade war. Sucks to those affected, but it shouldn't be a major shock since it's not something that came out of nowhere.
Short term, the tariffs just suck. Long term, that's when things start changing. The hope is that China-US solve their trade war in the short term so the long term consequences don't start going into effect.
That doesn't even take into consideration a massive reduction in overall sales. Businesses/governments will put off purchases until they have no choice. We could see new PC sales plummet and a surge in the used market. Computer hardware businesses could be driven under from the sudden shift.
The entire tech industry grew up in an era where it was virtually free of tariffs and trade restrictions which is why the industry is global. This pressure, if it remains for more than a year, is going to require businesses to rethink the global market. Instead of a few large fabs, the future may be full of lots of micro fabs, for example.
Thing is, the Chinese will buckle first. They need to eat.