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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYep, tried to order from AliExpress ... 145% tariff being applied already.
Yep, tried to order from AliExpress ... 145% tariff being applied already.
De minimis orders no longer exempt from 145% tariff
China isn't going to blink cause its easier to restore demand shock than supply shock over time
China can just lower their prices to everyone else by 2/3rds for everyone else and tick up prices later and this is exactly what happened when I just tried to order some of the smaller parts ... they were 2 dollars each vs 6.
We're cooked,

wcmagumba
(3,864 posts)uponit7771
(92,789 posts)SheltieLover
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Initech
(104,623 posts)Along with the SCOTUS justices illegally installed by the Heritage Foundation and the MAGA lunatics currently infecting Congress and the Senate - they all need to go! Fox News sucks at running our government. It is not their plaything.
SheltieLover
(67,177 posts)Straight to prison, imo.
You're right! Our govt is neither their toy nor their personal profit center.
And yet, this destruction is allowed to continue unbridled.
Initech
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SheltieLover
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uponit7771
(92,789 posts)Initech
(104,623 posts)Fuck this piece of shit, I'll tell him where he can shove his tariffs and his external revenue service.
dalton99a
(88,383 posts)There will be widespread gouging
uponit7771
(92,789 posts)Tickle
(4,061 posts)Its not that China owns the U.S., but they are deeply embedded in global supply chainsespecially for raw materials, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. Over the past few decades, many American companies outsourced production to China because it was cheap, fast, and scalable. That created a dependency.
The good news is, yeswe can and should buy from other countries or even bring production back home. The challenge is that rebuilding those supply chains takes time, investment, and political will. Countries like India, Mexico, and Vietnam are becoming alternative suppliers, but shifting away from China isn't like flipping a switchit's a long-term strategic move that the U.S. is slowly starting to make.