Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Serious or trolling?

  You said:

  If you manufactured it in the USA there are no tariffs. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand.

  Then I explained to you why it works like this:

  Manufactured in the USA = tariffs and expensive labor.

  Manufactured outside the USA = tariffs and cheap labor.

  It’s really that simple.

  Tariffs on everything is an incentive on manufacturing outside the USA as the supply chain is missing and all the parts need to be imported too.

  The story would be different if those were targeted tariffs on specific products. In that case it would work in the opposite way

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Serious or trolling?

    God, this response is just fucking lazy and boring. You could at least make interesting when you lob ad hominems because you don't understand the conversation. We were not discussing the merits of tariffs, we were discussing the facts. And the fact is that tariffs only negatively impact imported goods, by nature of being a tariff...

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