They were supposed to force those manufacturing plants to go to USA, but as the article shows it is not working:
[AsRock] “As for the 10% tariff applied to other products like GPU cards, we need some time to transfer the manufacturing to other countries.” [emphasis on the plural]
We already saw signs of this late last year, when PC Partner decided to relocate its headquarters from China to Singapore
And they likely won’t move into USA territory because USA might create some tax against the governments they import raw materials from, labour costs are high, and all that talk about expelling illegal immigrants will make labour costs even higher (lower labour supply = higher prices).
Yeah you don’t want to move to the country doing the tariffs, because everyone will tariff them back. Better to move to one outside of them like Malaysia or Vietnam.
Yup, it does sound like him. But I genuinely believe that his goal is manufactories beelining to USA, and that doesn’t seem too likely for me.
I’ll go further. My headcanon is that Trump didn’t come up with this idea; someone else did, and carefully led Trump to it. That person knows that the manufactories won’t go to USA, but they don’t really care - they benefit from USA being economical and politically isolated, perhaps even at its population having decreased living standards.
The tarriffs were put in place to get the other countries (Canada, Mexico, and China) to tighten up their border security for illegal immigrants and illegal drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl.
This is the officially documented reason for the tarriffs.
If tariffs work, then fuck yeah. I don’t think they will in the long run, but if we end up winning the lottery I’m not going to get upset because I didn’t like the numbers we picked
It’s also super not worth all of the other shit we have to put up with, but let’s take what wins we can
Edit: of course they aren’t moving manufacturing to the US, so I guess this hurts China at our own expense. I guess it’s only a win for whatever country they move manufacturing to
wait they are going to move manufacturing out of china? isn’t that what the tariffs were supposed to do? shit
They were supposed to force those manufacturing plants to go to USA, but as the article shows it is not working:
And they likely won’t move into USA territory because USA might create some tax against the governments they import raw materials from, labour costs are high, and all that talk about expelling illegal immigrants will make labour costs even higher (lower labour supply = higher prices).
Yeah you don’t want to move to the country doing the tariffs, because everyone will tariff them back. Better to move to one outside of them like Malaysia or Vietnam.
outside of china tho
Yes and this might hurt China a bit, but it’ll hurt USA even more. It’s like shitting your own pants to make someone else smell it.
sounds like trump to me
Yup, it does sound like him. But I genuinely believe that his goal is manufactories beelining to USA, and that doesn’t seem too likely for me.
I’ll go further. My headcanon is that Trump didn’t come up with this idea; someone else did, and carefully led Trump to it. That person knows that the manufactories won’t go to USA, but they don’t really care - they benefit from USA being economical and politically isolated, perhaps even at its population having decreased living standards.
EDIT: or, summed up in a single picture.
It will just divert manufacturing to places like Vietnam or Mexico.
sounds like not-china to me
So? Still Chinese owned companies and still not manufactured in the United States.
The tarriffs were put in place to get the other countries (Canada, Mexico, and China) to tighten up their border security for illegal immigrants and illegal drug trafficking, particularly fentanyl.
This is the officially documented reason for the tarriffs.
didn’t it turn out to be like 10 kg of fentanyl total, ever?
From Canada. The total amount imported or possibly even illicitly produced in the US every month is many many times that.
If tariffs work, then fuck yeah. I don’t think they will in the long run, but if we end up winning the lottery I’m not going to get upset because I didn’t like the numbers we picked
It’s also super not worth all of the other shit we have to put up with, but let’s take what wins we can
Edit: of course they aren’t moving manufacturing to the US, so I guess this hurts China at our own expense. I guess it’s only a win for whatever country they move manufacturing to
No they arent lmao