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Gaming PCs and components look set to jump in price in the US as import tariff exclusions come to an end (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a FYI.

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[+] [email protected] -35 points 5 months ago (5 children)

thanks Biden for ruining something else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's like you don't understand recent history...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

The ccp stranglehold on electronics? Yeah I'm glad they're ruining that. At the end of the day, we might have a viable semiconductor business in the United States or in an allied country, which will leave us far better off.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Thanks Trump for imposing the tariffs

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago

Things are really bad right now and only getting worse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I doubt that Biden or Trump were personally involved one way or another. The Executive Branch is huge, and the President just isn't involved with the vast bulk of things that it does. An election only changes a few people at the very top who oversee the thing. Everyone else stays in place and keeps on going.

However, even if they somehow were, the timeline the article has is that the USTR recommended restrictions in 2018 -- when Trump was in office. In 2022, when Biden was in office, there were temporary carve-outs created for these, so that the tariffs, which affected many other things, did not affect these to provide a window for companies to relocate. The article is talking about how these temporary carve-outs are ending.