Russia also has low taxes (at least for personal income, I am not sure about the taxes on businesses).
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Kuo: Apple Can Reduce Impact of Trump's Massive Tariffs in Five Ways
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because that's not how capitalism works. They literally can't. It's illegal. They have a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders. And any CEO that doesn't take actions to maximize their profits will not last long as CEO.
I suppose you must be correct that when a business faces things that endure additional costs then obviously what will happen is they pay it & it comes out of their profits so then the company makes less profit & doesn’t attempt to make up that short fall in profits
Because it’s capitalism and they squeeze every bit of money out of the customer as they can
That maple syrup is going to become more expensive. And that's a direct price increase that households will face," said Thomas Sampson from the London School of Economics.
"If I buy goods that are domestically produced in the US, but [which use] inputs from Canada, the price of those goods is also going to go up," he added.
That's because those in charge think that it's best to outsource stuff to other countries instead of focusing more on improving things at home. America relies on countries like China and India for a lot of things. If those two ever decide to turn their backs on America, then America is gonna have a huge problem on its hands.
Bringing manufacturing back home would create a lot of different jobs, which would help offset increased prices.
What I’m right about and the only thing I’m right about is that nobody knows how this all will play out.
So now we have prescient people? Maybe the tariff cost of maple syrup will be absorbed in the revenue?
There are elastic products and inelastic products. We’ll see.
DJGamble: Apple could diversify and aim to increase its international sales as there will be limited scope for domestic price increases, given the broader inflationary impact of these tariffs.
Oh this thread is a beautiful read. So beautiful. The most beautifullest read.
Well Trumpers, you voted for this. I'm getting the popcorn in (British popcorn obviously) and am going to enjoy every moment of it.
It's America's moment of Trussonomics. She lasted 4 weeks after her moment of insanity. I believe it's not as easy to replace a President unfortunately. Best of luck!
Well Trumpers, you voted for this. I'm getting the popcorn in (British popcorn obviously) and am going to enjoy every moment of it.
It's America's moment of Trussonomics. She lasted 4 weeks after her moment of insanity. I believe it's not as easy to replace a President unfortunately. Best of luck!
why not. The prices in the US currently are less than other western countries after sales tax is allowed for. I am unsure why the domestic prices cannot raise to be at least aligned. Just look at the price of the base MBP - US$2095 in the UK vs US$1599 in the US. So that is a 30% margin difference. If you allow for US average sales tax of 7.25% you still have 23% price increase to have parity with UK prices.
So an economic professor that does this for a living has said as a consequence of this then prices will go up
Analysts from Rosenblatt Securities said in a note Thursday that Apple would need to increase prices for several products to offset an estimated $39.5 billion in costs from tariffs as the company relies heavily on China-based manufacturing, including a 43% price increase for iPhones and Apple Watches, a 42% increase ...
Yeah because Apple are going to absorb that cost & not pass it on to customers worldwide
well they need to increase the US price by 23% approximately for parity and then align pricing internationally. I dont think price increases for consumers in countries that already pay a lot more and have nothing to do with the US tariffs, is such a great idea.
Also all PC manufacturers would need to do the same, otherwise Apple then becomes very uncompetitive in the rest of the world.
Unfortunately for US consumers, I thinks its on you to take the majority price increase, rather than thinking its wise to pass this on worldwide.
The brands that dont pass it on internationally will become seriously attractive if this is the case, as a 30-40% price difference is going to be very tempting.
If you think about it, Lenovo will dominate internationally, if the pricing for non US consumers was increased massively. They will be having a massive party if it is.
The price of the iPhone 16 PM £1.199 in the UK
And it’s $1.199 in the US then add tax
It’s 1.305.41 that’s a wee bit of a difference so if the price goes up bloody hell
If Apple decides not to create parity in the pricing [as taxes are a big reason there currently isnt parity] and treat their international customers unfairly then it will get very interesting. Tariffs are a tax like everything else - US consumers will need to suck it up [for the main part], although they may not want to hear this.
I suspect what will happen is this rather than have their US customers feel the full increase then they will probably raise the prices worldwide so they don’t have to raise it that much in the US & it’s spread out everywhere
This is kind of a nonsense line I see regurgitated often. The same product at every price level has a demand curve. Raising prices just means less consumers buy. It's like saying "the rich will buy at any price" then why don't they swing for the fences and see how it works out for them?
This is what the customers voted for...
It's a good year for Americans to start working in new factories where the nets are fresh. The Chinese nets are much older.
You can bookmark the post for posterity and we’ll see how right and wrong everyone gets to be as things roll along.
People get things wrong all the time. Remember y2k? You have to watch out for the appeal to authority argument.
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Here's the "thinking" that went into determining Trump's tariffs:
www.huffpost.com
White House Used 'Embarrassing' Formula To Come Up With Tariffs
Economists mocked the Trump administration's methods for calculating taxes on imports from abroad.
How did the Biden administration cause or not try to solve the worldwide economic downturn that occurred during that period? If anything, any improvements you will see will be a result of their actions, moreso than the ridiculousness happening now.
Why would they? And where would they go, China? Taiwan? Vietnam? Saudi Arabia? Iran? Russia?
Anyplace else they go would be a step down. Make no mistake also that many countries have laws against some of the social policies and practices that Apple likes to tout. And no constitutional rights to free speech.
Not to mention legal or religious restrictions against PERSONAL lifestyle choices of some of the Apple senior leadership team and many of their engineers.
It would be a severe hit to their security, and that foolishness would result in a complete loss of confidence in the US stock market. Hey, maybe they'll go to Greenland! 😏
He said this about liberals. George Carlin was never a conservative, but neither was he a liberal.
This is a reasonable expectation.
We almost couldn't bring two astronauts back from space. Oh wait, Elon Musk did that.
You just gave up like that? "He'll take away elections" is always the sign of somebody who has given up.
Name calling right up front. At least we know where you stand.
The same one that allows young people to graduate without having achieved any reading or writing capability at all, and without having achieved any functional understanding of how our country's government works.
If you have observed that many people don't trust government vaccinations, well good on you. But what you have incorrectly assessed is the REASON for the distrust. And that reason is government. Surprise!
This comment is so convoluted that it doesn't make any sense.
This has been happening since President Stumblefeet was in office. You're only just now noticing this?
Khrushchev said a lot of things. "We will bury you."
His reference to destroying the US from within was toward misinformation. Another soviet famously said, “Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.”
That was Vladimir Lenin in 1958. And the US schools were co-opted only a couple decades later with Jimmy Carter's Department of Education.
I'm not alone in my belief that the DOE needs to go, and fast. Our youth can't be successful for as long as there is a breath of life left in the DOE.
OMG, thank you thank you thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. This is so important for people to hear.
Thank you again.
I get you, and I mostly agree with you. But here's the facts of the stock market. Your stock gets PUNISHED HARD if you don't exponentially grow earnings quarter after quarter and year after year.
Sure, there are deviations from this in the short term. But over the long term, companies who don't grow earnings will just see lower and lower stock prices until it gets to a point where the company gets de-listed. And then can't fund major projects. And eventually goes away like the dodo-bird.
But why not try? If China declared war right now on the US, then the only way to win it would be to strike hard and (ahem) "hot", if you know what I mean. And that's because the US does not have the manufacturing base to be able to build replacement planes, tanks, ships, or ordinance. China already has a bigger navy.
The US won WW-II because we had the manufacturing base and know-how to make tanks in a car factory. Or planes in a factory that just weeks before was making sewing machines. And so forth. You can't do that if you don't have factories at all.
This is a terribly high-risk state for our country. Rebuilding our manufacturing base must be done just for security reasons alone (although all the other reasons are good ones too), and it must be done quickly. Whining and complaining about how the president is "going about it" is your right, but it's way off track.
All empires come and go. Its Chinas turn now, whether you like it or not, and are the 'exceptional' country this century.
It's interesting people call them the 'enemy' but have been happy to hand over massive amounts of money for their products. The west lost with the rise of consumerism, wanting more at cheaper prices. Greed is not a good thing.
Maybe higher prices may help reign in this rampant unsustainable consumerism.