Any thoughts on the 145% Chinese tariff on purchases?

[coffeebreak]

Free markets my ass. So basically you only buy from my friend's website and buy my friend's cars or else pay penalty.

[glepore]

Even at 145% he could still be profitable.

Rockbros glove on Ali  7.42 USD-Jeff probably gets a break when he orders in quantity  and he's not seeing min fees on import duties.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808036099693.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.9.2fe7xBcTxBcT87&algo_pvid=640097c4-2190-40d9-80d4-16295f4568e3&algo_exp_id=640097c4-2190-40d9-80d4-16295f4568e3-8&pdp_ext_f=%7B%22order%22%3A%2288%22%2C%22eval%22%3A%221%22%7D&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21USD%2115.14%217.42%21%21%21110.26%2154.03%21%402103146c17443984637252631ee277%2112000044284913888%21sea%21US%211699911272%21X&curPageLogUid=63IFQJynPbau&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A

Same glove AFAIK on Amazon at 20 USD

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLKRBCFT/ref=twister_B0DLKRDGMN?_encoding=UTF8&th=1

Amazon ships those, but they're not the seller, Rockbros is (if enter a size you can look at the right panel under "sold by"). Amazon is just a storefront and shipper and charges a big fee for that, but never owns the merch. Most of the Asian goods on Amazon are handled that way. A very large percentage of Amazon's business is just warehousing and shipping, not acting as a retailer.

[coffeebreak]

Just when I was getting ready to setup a manufacturing plant, Reciprocal tariff exemption announced by USA for certain categories. Most notable of them being -
Computers, smartphones, servers, GPUs, almost all supporting hardware, semiconductor devices, circuit boards.
I wonder if more goods will duly exempted soon. Funnily enough, the exemption has been backdated to 5th April which makes me think none of this was real except a blatant market manipulation so the friends of family of the guy can print billions.

The USA just folded like a soda can as soon as China said they are all in, in this nonsense war.
Art of the deal.
MAGA cheers ensue.

[rockerplates.de]

the minimi tariffs are kind of a great idea i wish they would have installed in Europe 10 Years ago..it would have saved many many companies from bankruptcy.
aliexpress sellers do not have to cope with the tremendous amount of laws, certs and neccessities , an european company HAS to deal with..

they basically fake all certs, all memberships for recycling, packing and all this stuff we have to pay for and can be held responsible for.

So , as a Germany based company, we cannot win against them, regarding prices...
basically, customers only buy what they cannot get via aliexpress...

But that is the only thing, i can understand if trump wants to help the local businesses.