Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics
SaltSong@startrek.website 3 weeks agoRight, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.
Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Where do you see that?
SaltSong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
That’s generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.
It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that’s not usually the case, and it’s usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you’d call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
That's not how tariffs work.
SaltSong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.
Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?