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Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] grrrmo@lemm.ee 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would expect a small company like them to be the most vulnerable to tariffs. This might cause them to go out of business.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They could start selling their inventory to countries they don't sell to yet. Although I'm assuming they're just pausing under the assumption that the tariffs are temporary.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how it works though. Do they get finished laptops off a ship from China, or do they do final assembly in the US?

If they do anything in the US, then they'll have to pay import tariffs to get the things they're using, and then have to make up that tariff when selling it to other countries. I assume that the only way to avoid tariffs is to avoid any part of their products ever entering the US. But, how easy is it to change their business so despite being a US-based business their products avoid the US entirely?

[–] Ethank@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

As far as I know, all of the assembly and testing is done in Taiwan, and they are shipped directly from the factory there. They have a European warehouse for some parts to reduce shipping times, I assume they have a similar warehouse in the us as well.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are still countries other than the US.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If the Americans could read, they'd be very upset to read this.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I know this is a joke, but to be fair, a good chunk of Americans are highly educated. It's just that the morons are more motivated to vote (and yes, I see the irony of not voting as a moronic thing to do.)