Mereo@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTrump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronicsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up1571arrow-down110
arrow-up1561arrow-down1external-linkTrump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronicsapnews.comMereo@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square181fedilink
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoThat’s not how tariffs work. You can’t just circumvent them by packaging them differently.
minus-squareSaltSong@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoPackaging, 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?
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours ago Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? …of course? Or a tariff on oil? Do your iPhones usually take oil? 🤔
That’s not how tariffs work. You can’t just circumvent them by packaging them differently.
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?
…of course?
Do your iPhones usually take oil? 🤔