Can't speak to Finland ... but here in US... Cyberpower is one of those that will build just about anything, many even overclock
1. You can buy PCs overclocked
2. You can choose your Case and PSU
3. You can chose every single one of your components ... even on a lappie after starting with one of several Chassis / Screen Combos
4. You can choose your case.
5. You can even choose the cables.
6. You can have them installed w/ combs and routed.
Some of those are gonna cost ya where extra labor is involved (1 and 6) but the others usually come at no additional cost other than parts prices. I can see over in your neck of the woods, smaller population and significantly higher prices, there might not be room for this business model to succeed.
https://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/CyberPower-Z370-i7-Configurator
While a few have been trying to make this a political discussion in and of itself, despite the narrowness of the original post .... the question remains ...
Assuming we are going to have a tariff, and forgetting the sensibility of that question, the scope here is limited ...
If you are going to put a tariff on PC related items ... Why put it on parts instead of pre-builts .. or tariff on both ? That's it.
1. Most parts aren't even made outside of China and those that are, at least partially, are not made in the USA. If you have an economic justification for this, let's hear it. How does this do anything more than cost consumers more money ? Will 30% surcharge on parts shift jobs to the US ? Are we really expecting fabs to be built, commissioned, workers trained here in the US in this decade ? Where do trained employees come from (Immigrants via Class 1B Visas ?) What's the impact on US businesses like Cyberpower ? What's the impact of the 10's of thousands of PC related service companies and mom / pop stores ? Will not this just leave a lot of US workers unemployed ?
2. OTOH, what does putting a tariff on pre-builts do..... it provides an opportunity for even more obscene profits. Alienware was mentioned where upgrading from 8 to 16GB can cost you $275. The lemmings that walk into BestBuy see a recognized name like Dell and scoop them up having no idea as to what they are buying won't notice. But if that $2200 Alienware equivalent to that $1800 Cyberpower build is obscene, Alienware can now add $450 to the price because their US based competition is paying $480 more for their parts. Put tariff on the pre-builts and there's an actual incentive for companies to move the labor / assembly here.
It's not about whether tariffs are a good idea; it's not a political "should they exist or not exist" discussion ... there's enough political propaganda in members avatars and sigs. I don't see the value in responses consisting of nothing but name calling w/o even addressing the topic. We have to deal with ridiculous statements every day from both sides of the aisle in the press ... this week's best example "
By that do you mean sped up? Well that's not altered. That's sped up. They do it all the time in sports to see if there's actually a first down or a touchdown."
It's simply about, if it's a given that there's gonna be a tariff to improve American jobs situation putting it on parts instead of pre-builts has the opposite effect. It's gonna do the opposite of what they are saying it's gonna do ... just like the above ... they don't speed up the film to see if it 's a first down,
they do the opposite; they slow it down to see of the knee hit ground before the ball passed the line. Again, I'm making no comment about the event which was being referred to so I hope folks can refrain from bringing in non-relevant propaganda regarding the event on either side. What happened in that room is irrelevant. The only relevance of that statement in this context i ....
They do it [speed up the film] all the time in sports to see if there's actually a first down or a touchdown." .... is what was said and that is the direct opposite of what actually takes place with sports films. Same here... a tariff on parts will not create jobs it will eliminate them. No tariff on prebuilts will also eliminate jobs as it destroys any incentive to assemble here.
I dare say when this hits the mainstream press, elected leaders will have a hard time defending this duality. Not saying I agree with it but I can see and argument for a "tariff on pre-builts", I can see a "tariff on both parts and prebuilts" ... a tariff on parts only makes as much sense as speeding up a film helps you see better. Somebody goofed with the statement and someone goofed w/ the parts only idea.