It’s only illegal if you’re caught
Comment on Trump's tariffs force laptop makers like Dell and Lenovo to halt US shipments
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week agoNo, that would not be legal. I don’t know how they write the law exactly, but they account for that. Could be based on country of manufacture.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Or haven’t paid your monthly bribe.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Or if the Judges enforce anything
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yeah they ship “parts” to Mexico. 1 laptop frame unfinished 1 laptop battery.
Finish and Assemble them by cutting out one small section of waste aluminum off the frame and then putting the battery in.
Ship to the us.
“Manufactured in Mexico”
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I commented on this myself earlier. Doing the extra shipping and bare minimum to count as a transformative step to create a new product will increase the cost of the good relative to where it is today, so there’s still an impact, but for virtually all products, it’s going to be far less than the 145% increase that tariffs would impose on a directly-shipped-from-China product.