Tariff impact is hitting

[Que]

Or the claim can be made that President Obama set the stage for those jobs to come back.

You raise a good point. It takes a lot of steel and aluminum to build the structures to hold chinese-made solar panels and windmills.

These tariffs are probably a thinly-disguised and obviously racist attempt by Trump to undermine Obama's green-energy economy.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Trump raised the quotas and shut down the tarriff's from other Steel and Aluminum producing nations to offset the impact of the Chinese tarriff's. The price bubble was short lived.

Tell the to OEMs that get electronic components from China or have manufacturers in China.

 

[Que]

Tell the to OEMs that get electronic components from China or have manufacturers in China.

Be a shame if the Chinese manufacturers got around that by opening plants in the US or if those OEMs sourced parts from the US.

Oh, that's right...decades of disadantageousbtrade policy, unions, and government regulation in the US means a lot of things are not made here. At all.

I wonder what sort of protectionist policies in China facilitated that to he and what sort of policies here might tend to reverse that. . .

 

[SpeareChucker]

Amazon's not worried; they just announced employee raises...

 

[RobDownSouth]

You can try and shoot the messenger if you want. I c/p from an email I received from my primary equipment supplier. Cisco and Dell have already raised prices 10% and all evidence is that there is another price hike coming. It is October. You do your initial budget forecast in October for the the coming year, or at least I always have.

It is what it is: The tariff impact is hitting

but...but...that would mean you've done due diligence and meatstacks funkenstein is blathering for nought.

I love how they yammer about "due dilegence"....when you're a Cisco shop and Cisco raises prices due to Trump's piss poor foreign trade policies, it's not like you're going to blithely writeoff your existing infrastructure and go with some no-name electronics company in the name of cost-effectiveness.

"substitute goods" is not a one-size-fits-all solution in high tech. A ten percent hike is annoying but it can be budgeted for and absorbed. I'd venture to say price hikes would have to double before hard choices had to be made.

In any event, this thread has exposed the near total lack of understanding of economics by meatstacks, NotIshmael, NotAJ and Queerbait (collectively known as "Que and his elk" (sic) )

#ButButDueDiligence

 

[ishtat]

And for the record - all you people that keep saying "taxes just get passed to the consumer as price increases" I have 1 to 3 year contracts where prices are fixed, as per industry norn. And that is the norm for a hell of a lot of industries.

If that is the case why don't you have a force majeure clause in the contract? Your slackness might be the reason or it maybe your lawyer's. Mebbe you both need a kick up the butt?

If the situation is so dire go to your client and tell them you are going broke without a price increase. They won't like it and will claim (rightly) that it's outside the contract but a bit of old fashioned commercial muscle might help you.