Y’all think this will stop in four years? Hell no. His successor in office will do the same thing. MAGA is the new GOP and will continue the same policies. A non-GOP congress can help stop it, that’s the only hope.
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Report: Apple Airlifted Premium Devices to US to Beat Tariff Deadline
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It reminds me of companies stockpiling when Britain left the EU. Thankfully that was only about navigating new border checks, as most tariffs were done away with in a trade deal.
I don't think this is quite right. Haven't the tariffs been calculated based on trade deficits, not on other countries tariffs on US goods?
…and what happened to those carbon-free goals?!??
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All those extra flights definitely didn’t help Apple meet their carbon emissions goals, did they?!?!
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All those extra flights definitely didn’t help Apple meet their carbon emissions goals, did they?!?!
Don't tell AGW-deniers that the per capita CO2 emissions in the PRC are still much less than in the US.
Except it is not in this case. Trump is pretty clearly doing this for Trump has his buddies.
If built in the US, Apple would still pay import taxes on all foreign components.
Trump has been promising tariffs for months. The tech companies should have been better prepared with sufficient stockpiles in their US warehouses.
That is why it’s not about building Apple products in the USA
It’s about exporting American products that countries refuse to accept
But it’s getting framed away that quick but this iPhone or Mac before it gets dearer and then reports coming out saying Apple are rushing more products into USA right now so then naturally people go oh I better buy one right now so then that increases said companies sales rather than usual at the same time last year.
Apple has as good idea of the mix of builds. They likely built a bunch of "custom" configs ahead of time and included them in the shipments. Probably the only models that are going to be scarce are the really high end models.
Mathematically, this what happens when you have millions of people that live in squalor.
The EU proposed exactly that to the US (“zero-for-zero”), already in February and again after the tariff announcements, but Trump rejected it. He wants the EU to commit to buy an amount of US goods that would remove the trade deficit. Trump doesn’t seem to be interested in free trade here, instead he wants artificially forced “reciprocal” trade volumes. So much for reducing government interference.
Also, the alledged reciprocity of the tariffs is a joke. The effective average tariffs on traded goods from the EU to the US were 2.2%, and from the US to the EU 2.7%. The difference is nowhere near the 20-25% imposed now. And again, that’s because the new tariff rates aren’t based on tariff reciprocity, but on trying to compensate for the trade deficit.
Last but not least, Trump’s tariff policies only consider goods, and not services, where the US has a trade surplus of $300 billion.
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exactly, the whole reciprocal thing is utter nonsense. Let's start calculating all the digital services exports the US is exporting to the EU without paying any taxes for all the data they are gathering on our citizens etc.. the trade ballance will quickly look a lot different. But this has all nothing to do with data or logig it's pure Gaga(sorry Maga) ideology.
In the case of cars, it's more of a "don't want" as they are unsuited to European driving conditions.
As regards foodstuffs, well, there are some known safety issues with some ingredients in use in the US, so if these ingredients weren't banned, I don't think that many people would still want them. Food culture in Europe is different from the US.
Europeans love American Brands - Apple, Microsoft, Nike etc, and buy it by the tonne. Unfortunately for America, most of that US branded stuff that Europeans buy isn't actually made in America.
His companies went bankrupt 6 times. CEOs get fired and never rehired anywhere after making any company bankrupt even once. Now ask yourself. Should anyone trust a person who went bankrupt 6 times? We have taco shops that don't go bankrupt.
Couldn't Apple have their products from China flown into Canada, then from Canada to US at much lower (or none at all) tariffs?
But why should we accept foodstuffs that we believe are unsafe?
I don't get the argument here. We have our safety standards here, and you have yours there. If you wish to sell to us, surely it's incumbent on you to manufacture to our standards rather than try to force us to lower our standards.
This is kind of like the DMA argument that rattled about here a while back. If you want to trade in a country, you abide by it's laws. There is absolutely nothing to stop US manufacturers from designing products that comply with EU standards and selling them in the EU (other than these bloody tariffs!)
Ireland has exported Halal meat to the middle east for decades - we didn't try to force them to accept our standards. I don't see why the US seems to think it has the right to bend the entire world to it's will.
He clearly hates America. His actions attest to that. Either that, or he's the dumbest brick in the pile. Or both.
Trump has nothing but scrambled eggs in his skull. But the maggots still believe he is Jesus and kiss his knuckles. What a mess.
Tariffs are based on the wholesale price of the good rather than the retail price. Given Apple's markups, they can absorb the tariffs easily by limiting the number of base model units coming into the US and shift their focus to selling higher end models. Given the actual cost of the upgrades vs Apple's markups, Apple can maintain the majority of their margins even with massive tariffs simply by shifting the models they push. I would not be surprised of the astronomical markups have remained in place strategically in case something like this happened.