Mereo@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTrump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronicsapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square222fedilinkarrow-up1725arrow-down115cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1710arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square222fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoThat’s not how tariffs work. You can’t just circumvent them by packaging them differently.
minus-squareSaltSong@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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?
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? …of course? Or a tariff on oil? Do your iPhones usually take oil? 🤔
minus-squareSaltSong@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago Do your iPhones usually take oil? What do you think plastic is made from?
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?
…of course?
Do your iPhones usually take oil? 🤔
What do you think plastic is made from?