Wednesday, August 8th 2018
PC Hardware to Get Pricier Stateside as 25% Import Tariffs Take Effect Late-August
The ongoing US-China trade-war is going to jack up prices of PC hardware and other electronics products made in China (PRC). This will also affect prices of products made by American companies that are manufactured in China. A new tranche of goods and services prescribes a 25 percent import tariff on "electronic integrated circuits: processors and controllers," "electronic integrated circuits: memories," "electronic integrated circuits: amplifiers," "electronic integrated circuits: other," which about covers all PC hardware. This tariff takes effect on August 23, 2018.
A component costing $100 at a US port, could be inflated to $125 before Federal and State taxes are applied, not to mention costs of the rest of the supply-chain, leading up to your retailer and their margins. Not all PC hardware is made in China. Goods imported from Taiwan (ROC), South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia (the other known countries where PC hardware is manufactured), remains unchanged. China remains America's biggest source of electronics imports.
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A component costing $100 at a US port, could be inflated to $125 before Federal and State taxes are applied, not to mention costs of the rest of the supply-chain, leading up to your retailer and their margins. Not all PC hardware is made in China. Goods imported from Taiwan (ROC), South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia (the other known countries where PC hardware is manufactured), remains unchanged. China remains America's biggest source of electronics imports.
194 Comments on PC Hardware to Get Pricier Stateside as 25% Import Tariffs Take Effect Late-August
How I wish it was. All the stuff they make is Chinese. I feel for the local assembly people, but unfortunately, they're not what defines the company.
The US is already fascist and mostly authoritarian from both parties as they are the limbs of the elite. It's just selectively enforced, but it's only a matter of time. The laws are already in place to remove the so-called freedom.
It also depends on the State.
thehill.com/policy/finance/299293-steelworkers-livid-over-report-trump-bought-chinese-steel-aluminum
In other news, will this tariff affect i-phones (Foxconn) or is the assembly process for the boards. I don't think the tariff affects products with components made in China, just the finished articles?
Let me know where we are in 2 years.
Edit: Grammar.
Edit 2: Trump could be credited for some of the upturn in the stock market, but that's really it. Saying that, he has shown to easily influence it negatively as well by tweeting about a company... so grain of salt.
1. Healthcare: went from state controlled to privatized / in the hands of insurance companies, but with the state watching closely and preserving at least some semblance of the collective idea of insurance. Its worse now than it was when the state controlled it, and price of healthcare has risen alongside it. The pressure is on in this line of work too, in a way it wasn't before. Either way, the citizen is still guaranteed of healthcare, back then and today. So, check!
2. Poverty: even in my relatively and absolutely rich country, there is poverty, as in, people who earn too little to make ends meet. We do however have a complete and pretty good social welfare system and even on the bottom end of the ladder, you can/should be able to not starve and have a roof over your head (been there, done that...). But if you choose to avoid that system or try to commit fraud, yes, poverty happens. And even when not doing that, the risk is always there when bad decisions are made. Relation to the degree of control? Just about zero, quite the opposite in fact. Poor people remove themselves from society and from 'control' much rather than the opposite.
3. Debt: national debts have been pushed back well within the EU guidelines over here. Over the entire history of my country, there is no documented or noticeable relation between debt and the degree of control over people. Besides, citizens are free to leave the country as they choose.
4. Gun control: our lack of weapons among citizens provides us with one of the safest societies in the world. Check the numbers.
5. Welfare: Check!
6. Education: in fact the lack of education is what spawns conflict, warfare, and ultimately leads to people being manipulated - and manipulation is the ultimate form of control. It is precisely the lack of knowledge and inability to check sources for the information we find, that causes much of the turmoil of today. Go look at third world countries and their state of education for proof. And while you're at it, compare the degree of freedom those people really have...
7. Religion: again, there is no documented relation between lack of religion and control over people. In fact, the precise opposite is true: there are MANY instances of documented relation between religious movements and control over people. In fact its one of the very enemies the US wants to fight so badly, called 'terrorists'. Those are people driven by religious ideals. What about their freedom, in fact? Oh yeah - they're free to blow themselves up in name of a man in the sky. Gotta love the options there! And even in the US, there is a strong Christian/pro-life movement that actively fights abortion and effectively limits the freedom of people to do what they want on very important matters.
8. Class Warfare: a very real issue that all societies, regardless of absence or presence of the above seven points, have to deal with. Its a given that the rich get richer and the gap widens as time passes. Again, very well documented, but not directly related to control, but rather a result of the situation 'as is' - and as it has always been. I believe our best answer to that is to create a society of 'chances', and providing as equal as possible chance for everyone to aspire to something they feel benefits them the most. And isn't that one of the fundamental ideals of Americans?
So... really? I think what you linked is complete and utter BS that has no support whatsoever in any kind of research or historical fact. When one of those points is true, a number of others are evidently not. Its a theory so weak, the fact it says 'idiots' on top really says more about that piece than anything else.
But I get the 'gist' of what it tries to convey: its a theory older than the guy you read about though. The Romans knew this already: Bread and Games. Keep your citizens entertained, keep them fed and busy, and you have control. What the article fails to note however is that we ALL want a certain degree of control, because it prevents our neighbours from bashing our heads in. The US and its citizens are trying to preserve a failed idea of freedom that was never going to work in a globalized world. Its an idea of freedom that reminds of tribal culture, and we all know those days are long gone. Besides, its exactly that tribal culture we don't fancy a whole lot, because more than freedom, many of us like 'certainties' and 'comfort'. I don't know, but that just sounds like progress and a civilized world to me.
The disconnect here, is that some mistake socialism for communism. Communism is a radical theory, socialism is a very good one alongside other ideologies. As it is with many things in life, what we really need is balance.
This probably, of course, actually puts me on a political spectrum myself: That of the libertarian/anarchist. But I'd rather not be called that either.
My 2c.
Of course, I'm a near hermit. What do I know? :P