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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by maaaaattttt on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:54AM (#43567772)
That would work of we had viable alternatives (on par with the US offers or as an easy migration). But we don’t really, so if the EU also adds tariffs than we’ll have the same issues the US is going to have. Meaning higher prices for the same offer since we’ll have no other choice but to stick with the US IT offer.

Like other comments said, this could work only if this was long term and everybody bites the bullet until they have a good local alternative to foreign offers with high tariffs. And the chances of having a lower offer as the one you were importing are really high. So, everybody is betting on short term.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by planb on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:24AM (#43569264)
Higher Prices? What is the "Price" of Instagram and Google Maps? But on the other hand, how would you put tariffs on these?

The good thing is: If the EU finds a way to tax the money flowing from advertisers to big tech, consumers would not be affected (at least not financially), because they are not the ones paying the price.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by Gasp0de on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:31AM (#43569346)
The price is not for using it, but for serving ads on it. They'd increase the price for ads that target European customers.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by planb on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:42AM (#43569508)
Yes. So advertising gets more expensive when targeting EU users. The users don't care, so there wouldn't be much public backlash. And the advertisers will either cut back / relocate their ad spendings or raise their marketing budget.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by bgnn on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:03PM (#43576519)
That price will be paid by the customer
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by planb on Friday April 04, 2025 @03:08AM (#43579177)
The customer of the end product? I don't think that marketing budgets work this way.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by StackRanker3000 on Friday April 04, 2025 @01:19PM (#43585332)
But they do? If businesses suddenly have to spend more money on advertising, where does it come from?
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by owebmaster on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:17AM (#43570061)
> Higher Prices? What is the "Price" of Instagram and Google Maps?

You gonna tax their real customers, the advertisers. And a 100% tax on advertisement is actually healthy for the economy and society.

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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by Ragnarork on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:25PM (#43572031)
> What is the "Price" of Instagram and Google Maps?

Those are free for consumers, but Google Suite (Mail, Calendar, etc.) for enterprises definitely has a price.

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