• artyom@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    If you manufacture the product in the US, you need to pay 100% tariffs for all the chips.

    Incorrect. Once again, tariffs are only for imported products. That’s how tariffs work.

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      19 hours ago

      I’m convinced you’re a troll/bot. That is not in fact how tariffs work since the chips are not made in the US.

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        14 hours ago

        Its really fucking lame to label everyone you don’t understand as a “troll/bot”.

        I don’t know how many ways there are to explain that tariffs only impact imported goods. If it’s manufactured in the US, there is no tariff. This is, in fact, how tariffs work.

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          13 hours ago

          My dude, the chips aren’t manufactured in the US. If the tariffs don’t apply to the chips that are inherently imported from outside the US since basically only TSMC and Samsung make them at this point, then there is no tariff at all. Companies in the US import the chips, then use the imported chips as part of their products. All the companies in the US do is assemble the imported parts (and sometimes not even that).

          EDIT: Ah, there was a miscommunication. I think we’re both saying the same thing at this point. Well, mostly the same, since this doesn’t really help US companies and just drives up prices for everything.