I don't think there is much thought to how it works in the consumer level other than it is supposed to make the tariffed goods more expensive thereby making other options more competitive. In that respect, it is likely working. Changing global supply chain relationships doesn't move quickly though. Vietnam for instance has had trouble meeting the same standards as China. Seems hard to imagine but after a few decades of manufacturing for the US China has gotten pretty good at it.
On Wed, May 29, 2019, 5:23 PM Jason McKemie < j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > 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 <af...@kwisp.com> 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 >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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