One thing about the tariffs that is especially irritating to me is that if tariffs are imposed at, for example 30% on steel, then the domestic supplier just raises their prices by 29%. Is this the way that this is supposed to work?
On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 3:18 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m in the process of buying a couple Supermicro servers, and I’m told > that due to tariffs, prices have already gone up around 10% and will be > going up another 15% on or about June 1. > > > > Are others running into the same thing? It sounds like I need to place my > order now. That’s not a trivial increase. > > > > We’ve also received tariff notifications from tower steel vendors, power > supply vendors, cable vendors, and we saw Cambium increase prices a few > months ago. Some of these like the steel and cable you just eat, but > potentially everything we buy except bandwidth may be going up. I wonder > if bandwidth suppliers will figure out a way to jack up prices claiming > tariffs! > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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