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Smartphones, computers, and other electronics will be exempt from President Donald Trump’s steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The real reason?

Apple, Intel, and other execs bribed him during an overpriced dinner.

This whole tariff thing has nothing to do with the country or international relations or manufacturing or whatever.

It's just his latest personal grift. He just now has the power to say "every CEO in the world must personally give me a bribe or I'll continue doing some really stupid shit."

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So he's fucking over american manufacturing of industrial machinery by tarifing raw goods but not end results? It gets dumber all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

For him that's OK, he serves for the big corpos manufacturing in China, just realised how much was screwing them and fixed it... the rest can be boguht with a MAGA cap... made in China too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I may legitimately lose my supposedly magical and highly important American manufacturing job because of this shit and these dumbasses think that this is all a genius move that will finally Make America Great Again. Everyone else I know who works in manufacturing is feeling the same way. One of my coworkers is mildly Trumpy and was talking about how he thinks it's a negotiation tactic and was shocked when I said I think the people in charge are just legit stupid and think tariffs will magically make things better in their own right. He didn't have anything to offer as a rebuttal he just seemed surprised that anyone would think Trump isn't a turbo genius who is secretly making 5000 IQ negotiation moves.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

So non-essentials are exempt, but food products are fully taxed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

What a chump. Real "tough guy" lol

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and MAGA was like, "HOORAY TRUMP IS SO AWESOME! see. i told you tariffs would only be temporary"

fuck joke of stock manipulation

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Inbreeding is a hell of a drug.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In short, Trump admitted defeat without admitting it. The goods that matter will be allowed to pass. China will probably also reduce something on their side.

To save face, Trump will continue to hinder trade of bamboo mats and sex toys until they work out a formal way of de-escalating.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everything from China now has Raspberry pi pico taped to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

There will be a steep increase in demand in China for the $5 highly integrated 2G modules that were becoming useless because of 2G phase-out, due to everything being exported to the US having one attached to be classified as a mobile phone for Tariff purposes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Nah, too expensive.

They have 1 led.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Both trump and doge is just the open-the-gates meme

-- Tarrifs for everyone/no government empoyees -- but sir, people enjoy computers/functional government -- stop most tarrifs/bring back the personel!

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you, because we need them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you, ~~because we need them.~~

Because their CEOs attended his dinner and bribed him.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Nintendo ninjas got to him. This man is completely compromised by the Mushroom Kingdom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

He's back peddaling now that he got his stock money so that the horde of angry republicans he was making calms down and doesnt whoop his ass.

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