My steel prices jumped before the tariff even took effect. Sent from my iPhone
> On May 29, 2019, at 4:36 PM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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