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GarrusPeople always say things like "we can't make it" but nobody is suggesting traditional old school tariffs on every country. The tariffs are on China, and China alone. We don't have to make any of those products. We just don't want our hi tech industries to be in China.


Again, US consumers can buy the products from other countries. Just not China. The damage to the US consumer is very small. The tariffs are not to make the US manufacture everything, but to reduce the purchase of goods from a dicatorship, and not a friend. The largest and most dangerous one in the world. Would you have advocated for the US to buy everything from the Soviet Union? Of course not.

A lot of people are so confused on this simple point. They are tariffs against Chinese imports. Not against imports generally. Germany could have bought energy from any country, just not from Russia etc.

TheLostSwedeIt's not a new tax, it's the same tariff they imposted against China when Trump was in charge.
However, an exclusion for some products, like GPUs was made and that exclusion is now about to expire.
VAT = Value Added Tax, has nothing to do with importing goods. It's something individual countries add to certain types of goods.

maxflyYup, lets have a conniption over something that will never happen. Biden may be an old grey codger but he's no fool. This has about as much a chance of being re-implemented as the people in Ukraine dropping their weapons and giving in to Putin.

Yeah, life's a bitch until you remember there's a madman and his lackeys brainstorming new and creative ways to murder civilians. While we sit in our warm cozy homes getting outraged about phantom GPU tariffs or the unfairness of taxes our government has cowed us into believing we can't change. FFS

End of rant.

sepheronxI hope you aren't American or western european or you would come off as a massive hypocrite.

But humility isn't normally in those kind of peoples vocabulary.

WirkoIs a graphics card actually made in China if the most valuable parts of it, which is the GPU and RAM dies and probably their packages too, are made in TW/SK/US?

maxflyTouch a nerve did I?

sepheronxNo, just pointing out the hypocrisy of average westerner and stupidity. That is all.

Carry on with your false sense of care and pride.

R-T-BUnder trade law none of that matters. All that matters is the export country.

Examples of the main types of product specific rules in EU trade agreements

• the value-added rule – the value of all of the non-originating materials in a product cannot exceed a certain percentage of its ex-works price

WirkoI don't know what the general rules are like but what you're saying isn't always the case.

The USMCA agreement between the US, M and CA has rules of origin.
www.trade.gov/usmca-dayone-0
(click on Rules of origin, then search the text for "percent" and "%")

The EU has trade agreements with Japan and South Korea (and other countries of course, but not the US, TW or China), which include rules of origin like this (general) clause:

(a long document, you find the interesting bits if you search for "percent", "%" or "processing")

sepheronxNo, just pointing out the hypocrisy of average westerner and stupidity. That is all.

TheinsanegamerNBecause not setting the tariff results in the lowest common denominator being able to rob your industry blind (see also the US auto industry from the 90s to today). Something has to be done to protect domestic manufacturing, especially when other countries have tariffs on YOUR goods.

R-T-BInteresting, I did not know this, thanks.


Comparing Russias behavior as of late to any western nation, even the US, is very laughable and incredulous.

I'd list why but "no politics." Lets just say we have more than 4 (state run) TV channels in America, for starters. It helps you to think when you can at least pretend to have valid discourse.

Also this topic has nothing to do with Russia.

R-T-BI don't watch any of them, being they are all state owned other than one odd duck canadian one that I can't seem to find much about. Granted, you have a lot more than 4, it would appear:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian-language_television_channels


That says a bit more about you than me. I'm a lot of things but I'm never intentionally dishonest.


Yes, all the superpowers kill people. Woo. You aren't establishing anything incredible here. One treats it's own citizens far better, and has a much more open media system. That was my point. Yes it's much like comparing shit and radioactive waste but one is worse than the other.

claesIt’s okay I don’t think sepheronx’s marbles are in order

sepheronxSince I have family both sides of the border and recent events in your country (and mine, Canada), I wouldn't be quick to make that assumption buddy.

You be you and live in your bubble. I won't.

Good day.

Why_MeI have family in White Horse and allI know is they can pound beer like nobody I've seen before.

sepheronxthey are in order.

It is just you guys cannot seem to accept your own responsibilities and issues of your own creation. A lot of projection is done and its rather funny.

Pointing out your guys hypocrisy is apparently my mental capacity is in question. Which tells me that many here, including you, do not seem to really understand what is actually happening. Kind of sad honestly. Got nothing against you guys but some of you need to understand humility and just accept the messes you created and stop pointing fingers at others. First step to recovery is acknowledging you got a problem.

As the saying goes - Don't throw stones from a glass house.

claesIt’s okay I don’t think sepheronx’s marbles are in order, seems to be the only Canadian to embody America’s superiority complex just to condescend Americans

claesBut what do I know I’m just some American fool on the Internet.