• jdeath@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    wait they are going to move manufacturing out of china? isn’t that what the tariffs were supposed to do? shit

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      4 hours ago

      If tariffs work, then fuck yeah. I don’t think they will in the long run, but if we end up winning the lottery I’m not going to get upset because I didn’t like the numbers we picked

      It’s also super not worth all of the other shit we have to put up with, but let’s take what wins we can

      Edit: of course they aren’t moving manufacturing to the US, so I guess this hurts China at our own expense. I guess it’s only a win for whatever country they move manufacturing to

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      12 hours ago

      They were supposed to force those manufacturing plants to go to USA, but as the article shows it is not working:

      [AsRock] “As for the 10% tariff applied to other products like GPU cards, we need some time to transfer the manufacturing to other countries.” [emphasis on the plural]

      We already saw signs of this late last year, when PC Partner decided to relocate its headquarters from China to Singapore

      And they likely won’t move into USA territory because USA might create some tax against the governments they import raw materials from, labour costs are high, and all that talk about expelling illegal immigrants will make labour costs even higher (lower labour supply = higher prices).

        • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          9 hours ago

          Yes and this might hurt China a bit, but it’ll hurt USA even more. It’s like shitting your own pants to make someone else smell it.

            • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              4 hours ago

              Yup, it does sound like him. But I genuinely believe that his goal is manufactories beelining to USA, and that doesn’t seem too likely for me.

              I’ll go further. My headcanon is that Trump didn’t come up with this idea; someone else did, and carefully led Trump to it. That person knows that the manufactories won’t go to USA, but they don’t really care - they benefit from USA being economical and politically isolated, perhaps even at its population having decreased living standards.

              EDIT: or, summed up in a single picture.