• @[email protected]
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    -472 months ago

    Don’t video game consoles all have offices in the US? Why would the US apply tariffs on companies residing in and paying tax the US?

      • @Chessmasterrex
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        302 months ago

        Even products “made in the USA”, like an automobile, rely on parts from overseas suppliers, especially China.

        • @Daveyborn
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          82 months ago

          My cats food for example, dewault has similar tags on their power tools.

      • @[email protected]
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        -282 months ago

        Are tariffs applied when a company produces something in one country and transports them to their own company in another country? I thought they only applied to sales.

        • @D1G17AL
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          292 months ago

          The only thing tariffs do is raise the price of imported and exported goods. The intent behind that is to encourage domestic production of a given good. However, we largely do not have domestic production of many, many, many different goods in the USA. So the primary outcome is going to be a decade or more of much higher prices for literally every single kind of consumer, business or industrial grade electronic device or good. It’s terrible for the economy. It will lead to a record recession or even a depression. Tariffs do not punish the target country. They punish Americans attempting to buy from those countries. This means new start-ups and new businesses will not be able to afford things from third-party manufacturers in China.

          • @[email protected]
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            182 months ago

            Not only new businesses, this will ABSOLUTELY lead to the extinction of already established businesses as well. The magat cretins have ZERO clue how bad this will be.

          • @[email protected]
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            92 months ago

            This. It’s basically a fucking stupid version of forcing the increased pricing onto us to increase corporate profits or whatever their end goal is. If China is charged 10% more to get their pieces to us. They are not taking that hit over our internal political retardation.

            • @bitchkat
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              22 months ago

              China isn’t charged shit to send us stuff. The tariffs are paid by the company importing the goods (aka the buyer)

          • @[email protected]
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            62 months ago

            Tariffs do not punish the target country.

            Tariffs punish every country, actually, unfortunately.

            • @[email protected]
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              52 months ago

              Tariffs punish every country, actually, unfortunately.

              Including the one who started the inevitable trade war.

        • @iopq
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          282 months ago

          You can’t just import something and put it in a local warehouse to avoid tariffs. Then nobody would pay them ever

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            2 months ago

            Some businesses in Russia have loopholes like importing components and making a local assembly, up to just putting their sticker on it. I wonder what % of production process would be enough to count a product as Made in USA.

            • @Cheems
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              You’re still importing the base materials and have to pay tariffs on that. That’s not getting around anything. The end consumer still foots the bill.

              • @[email protected]
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                -12 months ago

                Depends on what the tariffs are about. If there’s a tariff on a specific category of finished consumer goods, an import of the materials/ parts in combination with a local assembly might indeed reduce or avoid the taxes you have to pay.

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              Each piece brought in is taking the hit from the tariff if its under a tariff. The only way to “avoid” is what we call smuggling.

              • andrew_bidlaw
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                22 months ago

                Yep. Yet finished prodiuct for end user is declared pricier thsn individual parts and certified differently.

        • @bitchkat
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          102 months ago

          Its an import tax, not sales tax.

        • @krashmo
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          72 months ago

          I thought they only applied to sales.

          What do you suppose these companies might want to do with their products once they transport them to this other branch location?