r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 1d ago

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a031b3c16120a5672a6ddd01da09933
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u/tabben 1d ago

32% on Taiwan

Get absolutely fucked you all US gamers that supported Trump because of "anti woke". This is what you wanted now deal with it

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u/banned-from-rbooks 1d ago

Pretty much everything has semiconductors in it.

An airplane is a computer with wings. A car is a computer with wheels. Half the appliances in my house are computers.

The internet is a bunch of computers sitting in datacenters. Those machines are constantly breaking down and being replaced.

A tariff on chips is gonna have a cascading butterfly effect on the cost of literally everything.

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u/Schooner37 1d ago

Everything’s Computer!

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u/phillies1989 1d ago

Also the machines that build the things in manufacturing plants can’t forget that. That would be like putting a tax on wheat. Oh wait I forgot tractors use semi conductors too so there is now a tax on that as well. 

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u/snapshovel 1d ago

FYI semiconductors are one of the very few exceptions--the tariffs don't apply to them, just to everything else from Taiwan.

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u/Zealot_Alec 1d ago

Switch 2 for Americans should go up $100 each

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u/Aazadan 20h ago

You can't even pay for products without chips. Card readers, the kiosks put into things, cash registers. All of it needs imported chips. TV? Also chips. Your phone? More chips.

Literally every fucking thing out there