Impact of Tariffs on Audio Market

@gano and you believed COVID came from a wet market and Faucci was right.

You believe in nothing.

Sock puppet alert.

I have no idea why you are bringing covid into this, about which I said nothing. I cannot follow your "logic". I give up :(

This conversation should be viewed from all sides. 

As already pointed out, cheap price is paramount. It would then seem logical that a more benificial solution is NO tariffs. Other countries could stop imposing tariffs altogether. The global consumer would enjoy lower prices without the additional burden of tariffs.

So, in order to negotiate, let's make a fair and level playing field... if you charge me 25% I will charge YOU 25%.  You charge 0 then I charge you 0.  Sounds fair. By doing this why are we the bad guys?  They put tariffs on our exports first.

BTW...These 'reciprocal tariffs' have been imposed on other countries by China for years but no one seems to complain about that but when we put tariffs that's just horrible.

The list of American businesses hurt by tariffs, tax exemptions, subsidies is not good. How many American cars do you see in Japan? None.  The American furniture industry was wiped out, many jobs lost. These are big indusrties being lost. Too many to list.

This tariff problem should of been handled LONG ago. It has shifted global competitive prices unfairly for decades. 

@sns 

Doing the same thing as you are, which is what @texasblues1959 has so eloquently encouraged others to do:

Zero worry in 6 months this will all be done and gone. Why I made my purchases while folks were busy running around like chicken little.

So, anybody in this forum that suggests they are looking to buy now are downright fools. Purchasing in the next six months (thank God! Texas blue says 6 months...TOPS!!) Come December we can all buy our dream gear again! 

What would you say Texas, you have a way with words that should be censored just for it's intention to attack, what is your advice while we and all others folks who in the business of buying and selling audio gear? Stand back and stand by?

We can talk about tariffs all we want.  It won’t matter to most until they are personally  impacted.  Same with all the chainsaw cuts to government services made with no consideration for the impacts.  Now they are trying to hire people back to fill needed jobs.  Air traffic is a mess as an example.  Stay tuned.  My hope is it will all turn out well but considering how it has been done to date (on the whim of those with inflated egos  who are not SMEs in the areas affected) I have my doubts.  For sure whatever happens will be marketed as the greatest thing ever that nobody has ever seen before. No doubt there.