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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by mcphage on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:01PM (#17322537)
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?
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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by yellowapple on Friday June 15, 2018 @04:43PM (#17323385)
Probably those same manufacturers, depending on whether the added labor premium is less than the cost of shipping finished goods across the Pacific.
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Re:White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech g... by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday June 15, 2018 @05:42PM (#17323846)
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.

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