• artyom@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    Why wouldn’t the tariff apply to chips already in devices? That’s the way its always been discussed.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      tariffs are over the final product, not the individual components inside that product.

      For example Ford was making a cargo van in turkey, but thanks to the chicken tax that they themselves lobbied for, a cargo van made in turkey would have a 25% tariff. Solution: make passenger vans in turkey, import them with 0% tariff, then pay an american to remove and send the passenger seats to the landfill and get a cargo van

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      5 hours ago

      Because tariffs are crude pieces of legislation. The US can’t make their own phones anyway, even with 1000% china tariffs, for years. You can’t just click your fingers and have manufacturing at that scale and quality exist.

      • artyom@piefed.social
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        5 hours ago

        Whether they can or do make their own chips is irrelevant to who is impacted by tariffs.

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      Perhaps somehow we still believe he wouldn’t fuck over Americans that much.

      There’s chips in everything and they simply won’t be made domestically any time soon.