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I don’t get it
Trump just announced a while ago that now tech is exempt from all tariffs. This will probably change because fuck consistency. Everything else not tech is still tariffed.
Is it really all tech? I read somewhere that only a few different types of products were excluded.
At this point it doesn’t even matter. Whatever I type out will have changed in the last 5 minutes because we let some guy run our country based off social media posts. I think it’s currently limited to smartphones, laptops and computer chips. Which to me is basically all the tech we were trying to “bring back” but who knows anymore.
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Hilarious.
It would be if I didn’t live in this hellscape. Lucky I’m in California, but they’re trying to force their agenda on us here too.
Oh I live in Maryland. I just think it's hilarious that he decided that the one of the things that we've actually been subsidizing against free trade principles(local technology manufacturing, particularly chips) is what he's exempting. They're not sending their brightest to the white house.
Not only that, this was his whole argument for tariffs. China didn’t even “negotiate” like all his supporters said they would. He just did it because the economy is fucked because his big brain move turned out to be awful for safety of the economy. Which wasn’t working for all of us anyways, but is certainly better than working for literally only the .01%.
It's just very amusing, because we already blocked their cars before this even started. Supposedly we want to import chips and locally produce trash homegoods and sweatshop clothing. But we're also going to ban the immigration that we used back when we produced sweatshop clothing. It's just so dumb it's hilarious. A grade schooler would produce a better protectionist plan. At this point it's too incoherent to even be called protectionist.
How would an electric car with a smart screen and shit not be considered technology
What does technology even mean?
Does it mean semiconductors, which we don't have a ton of manufacturing capability in the states, or software as a service?
If it's the former, basically all manufactured goods have tech in them these days