• @[email protected]
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    1322 days ago

    He emphasized that the proposed tariffs would leave companies with no choice but to invest in domestic production facilities to avoid high taxes.

    No choice except the obvious: Pass the cost of the Tax into the customer because there’s no way they’re going to spend billions to stand up a US fab plant anytime soon.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 day ago

      That’s just how tariffs work. They’re not a weapon against enemy nations. They’re a tax on Americans.

      And nobody is going to bring production back to this fascist slave pen of a country.

    • @[email protected]
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      272 days ago

      No choice except the obvious: Pass the cost of the Tax into the customer because there’s no way they’re going to spend billions to stand up a US fab plant anytime soon.

      TSMC is standing up fabs in the US, mostly because we’re bribing them to do so.

      The problem is that it takes literal years to build high tech manufacturing and isn’t something you can yank out of your ass to satisfy some idiot politician.

      • @cyd
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        352 days ago

        By Taiwanese law, TSMC isn’t allowed to move cutting edge processes to its US plant. The overseas operations have to be at least one gen behind.

        From a strategic point of view, it makes sense for the Taiwan government to do this. They don’t want the US to suck them dry then cut a deal with the mainland.

        • @[email protected]
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          152 days ago

          I mean, it’s economic blackmail: we won’t build the good shit anywhere else, so if you don’t protect us, you get nothing.

          Effective, but only if you’re dealing with someone who is rational, and, well, have you seen the brain-worm oligarchs in charge of the US lately?

          • @[email protected]
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            323 hours ago

            For Taiwan, it’s a matter of survival, plain and simple. They’re not going to give up their monopoly because without it they cease to exist. It does not matter how irrational the person they’re dealing with is, because for them this is life and death, literally. TSMC is the single biggest national security asset they have.

    • @[email protected]
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      402 days ago

      More so when these plants take 10 years to build. They will pass along the cost and just wait him out.

    • @Eatspancakes84
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      92 days ago

      Also, because these investments are long-term when the tariffs are likely to only be short term.

    • @Cheems
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      32 days ago

      Yeah but what corporation is going to think of the obvious solution?