I feel like there must be a miscommunication/misunderstanding here.

The real problem seems to be that none of the news articles try to dig into what Trump's vague and ambiguous wording actually means. They just report his nonsense verbatim. Does "building in the USA" mean building chips or building products containing chips?

She would not survive that.

So any product containing chips will have a 100% tariff applied?

Edit: product imported to the USA

Pretty sure that's their point. Say a product costs $100 dollars with no tariffs. If you import the product from the EU with a 15% tariff, it's now $115 with tariffs (assuming no tariffs importing the chips into the EU). If you manufacture the product in the US, you need to pay 100% tariffs for all the chips. Obviously the impact depends on how much the chips cost relative to the entire product, but if the chips are half the cost ($50), then with a 100% tariff you're now paying $150 for the product manufactured in the US.

It'll probably be 100% tariff for the chip, and whatever the rate is for that country on the rest of the product. That's assuming they go into that much detail, because if they don't, it would be easy to dodge.

Why would he pardon her? Prison is sheer hell and she got a huge upgrade. Fuck around and they can take that back. They got all the leverage they need without the screams of outrage a pardon would bring.

Surely the tariff would apply separately, so the imported cost would be $157.50 ($50 chip @ 100% tariff + $50 everything else @ 15% tariff).

If they didn't apply separately, the tariff would be trivial to dodge.

I'm guessing the chip in the finished product would be taxed separately, otherwise it would be trivial to dodge the tariff (just package the chip in a different "finished product" and move it to a US-made product).

Read all of the comments here, there are many stating why this would drive costs way up.

Just wait until he has a conversation with the AI freaks in his admin. He changes policy based on the last person he talks to. What an idiot.

They increase demand for domestic goods and therefor raise the price of goods that were already more expensive than the imported goods.

Looking into it, the US implementation goes down into the components, so yes. Except, I believe it'd be $50 chip @ 100%, other components at whatever tariff rates they may have, and then the 15% per-country/region tariff applies to all of it on top. So if the other components have no tariffs, it'd be $172.50. I'm now wondering how expensive everything would end up if you have tariffs on materials as well.

In any case though, it becomes ludicrously expensive no matter what because you're at most dodging the 15%.

EDIT: You can also dodge some of the tariffs if some percentage of the product is made in the US. I wonder if you'd be able to dodge the chip tariff if the materials for it were partially sourced from the US. If possible, that'd probably be cheaper for companies than actually trying to manufacture chips here.

EDIT 2: Actually your calculation may be right, I'm having a hard time finding how they're actually meant to be calculated. Admittedly it seems a bit weird to me that the rate would override the country-specific rate and thus be the same for chips from the EU and China, but I suppose none of this makes sense in the first place.

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Yeah, I'm guessing if you just imported the wafers but did packaging in the US, you could probably get an exception. But I'm not well-versed in the law to know.

Just tell him computer chips are made of McDonalds and diet coke, several problems will solve themselves shortly after.

I import exhaust parts made from steel. They are tarriffed as exhaust parts. Raw steel has its own import HTS code.

Expecting companies to build their own chip foundries and manufacture their own chips to avoid tariffs is as unrealistic as expecting poor people to singlehandedly use nuclear fission to create atoms from nothing to materialize into existence all the food they can't afford. Even if these American "use AI for everything" megacorp regimes that can't even write a mouse driver that's under 1gb actually put their big swingin' dicks back into their pants long enough to actually figure out how they could be efficient enough use the more achievable 90nm and 65nm chips, even that is so unachievable they'd never find a way to mass produce them affordably. Russia supposedly managed to diy their own 350nm chips which is barely even mid 90s Pentium 1 era bullshit and even that's probably fake propaganda that, best case, followed some half successful low volume experiments in a lab.

The only purpose of this is to cause mass calamity and force people further into poverty while corporations have an excuse to make everything even more expensive without giving anything back to society in return.

The existing tariffs somehow exclude chips or phones/computers with chips in them. This would be a separate category, like metals.

I read those news in a way that she's now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every 'suicide' would be met with public outrage.