Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g...
by tridentlead on Friday June 15, 2018 @02:32PM
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Not if the goal is to bring back component manufacturing.
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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g...
by mcphage on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:01PM
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Who’s going to buy the US-made components if the manufacturers that use those products have already moved to China because of the tariffs?
Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g...
by yellowapple on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:43PM
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Probably those same manufacturers, depending on whether the added labor premium is less than the cost of shipping finished goods across the Pacific.
Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g...
by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday June 15, 2018 @05:42PM
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As a first-order approximation, transoceanic shipping is essentially free. A quick google gives me $5,000 to ship a container from China to a US port. Considering the volume that a 40' container can hold, yeah, that's pretty much free.
Compare that to even cheap US labor rates and it's a no-brainer.
Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g...
by systoll on Saturday June 16, 2018 @01:48AM
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The stated goal only matters insofar as it affects the policies that are created.
In 2018, it's a whole lot easier to avoid doing any manufacturing in the US than it is to avoid using any components made in China; and both approaches avoid the tariff as written.
If the goal is to bring back component manufacturing, they need to go back to the drawing board.