Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoSurely the tariff would apply separately, so the imported cost would be $157.50 ($50 chip @ 100% tariff + $50 everything else @ 15% tariff).
If they didn’t apply separately, the tariff would be trivial to dodge.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Looking into it, the US implementation goes down into the components, so yes. Except, I believe it'd be $50 chip @ 100%, other components at whatever tariff rates they may have, and then the 15% per-country/region tariff applies to all of it on top. So if the other components have no tariffs, it'd be $172.50. I'm now wondering how expensive everything would end up if you have tariffs on materials as well.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I’m guessing if you just imported the wafers but did packaging in the US, you could probably get an exception. But I’m not well-versed in the law to know.