Mereo@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoTrump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronicsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1316arrow-down1external-linkTrump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronicsapnews.comMereo@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square183fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-216 days agoThat’s not how tariffs work. You can’t just circumvent them by packaging them differently.
minus-squareSaltSong@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days agoPackaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes. Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?
That’s not how tariffs work. You can’t just circumvent them by packaging them differently.
Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.
Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?