Smartphones and computers will be exempt from Trump's steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.

Smartphones, computers, and other electronics will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    3 days ago

    So he’s fucking over american manufacturing of industrial machinery by tarifing raw goods but not end results? It gets dumber all the time.

    • markovs_gun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      I may legitimately lose my supposedly magical and highly important American manufacturing job because of this shit and these dumbasses think that this is all a genius move that will finally Make America Great Again. Everyone else I know who works in manufacturing is feeling the same way. One of my coworkers is mildly Trumpy and was talking about how he thinks it’s a negotiation tactic and was shocked when I said I think the people in charge are just legit stupid and think tariffs will magically make things better in their own right. He didn’t have anything to offer as a rebuttal he just seemed surprised that anyone would think Trump isn’t a turbo genius who is secretly making 5000 IQ negotiation moves.

    • sircac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      For him that’s OK, he serves for the big corpos manufacturing in China, just realised how much was screwing them and fixed it… the rest can be boguht with a MAGA cap… made in China too