Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO

Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by monkeytime19878 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:41AM (#43090793)

Who uses Acer? Not me....

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by belter on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:49AM (#43090877)

Don't worry...The tariffs are only on Acer \s

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by busterarm on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:52AM (#43090913)

Acer doesn't do final assembly in the US. Many other brands do.

Apple is already shifting a lot of production from China to Vietnam, which hasn't been mentioned as a tariff target yet.

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by addicted on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:58AM (#43091012)

Only about 15% of Apple’s iPhone production is in India with it expected to rise to about 25% over the next few years.

But the administration is likely to impose even higher tariffs on India, so that doesn’t help either.

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by addicted on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:55AM (#43090960)

True.

Those other brands will see price hikes that are slightly lower than 10% then.

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by blackeyeblitzar on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:54AM (#43090957)

And didn’t Apple move iPhone production to India already?

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by busterarm on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:57AM (#43090999)

And the desktop Mac Pros are built in Texas.

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by cbg0 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:01AM (#43091057)

You mean assembled there? Or is at least 51% of it built in Texas?

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Re:Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer... by tokioyoyo on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:44PM (#43092726)

Just assembled. By Flextronics. It's like an American company registered in Singapore or something.

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