Impact of Tariffs on Audio Market

@gdaddy1 +1

The other things few people want to acknowledge are the poor working conditions in some of the other countries that trade with USA (i.e., low wages, long hours, poor benefits, lack of safety controls, and other conditions that would not be tolerated here) as well as less stringent environmental requirements than we have in order to protect waterways, air, solid waste disposal sites, people, and the environment in general. The American consumer has conveniently overlooked these things in order to have the latest and greatest products at low prices. 

BTW - There are folks that complained about tariffs here on this site in 2022. I saw four threads that were still available for folks to read when I did a generalized search.

Laughable.

Or course you'd say something like that, being so easily triggered. This company you work for that is so ahead of everyone else, planning for the future, what's its name and what position do you hold in it? Everything you say about it reads like you're cutting and posting from a company perspective.

And, like others have asked, where the hell did Covid come from? You first post on that was incomprehensible. Anyone else notice that texas doesn't offer real counterpoints but just opportunistic moves to rationalize the childish, uniformed  impulses of his hero?

All the best,
Nonoise

In the past couple months I've bought items from China, Japan and Singapore, including two turntables and a pre-amp.  No duties, no tariffs, everything arrived on time...  For all the talk in this thread, I'd be curious to know how many have actually been affected by the on-going trade negotiations; with the exception of communist China, tariffs (if any) should be a flat 10% for the 90 days since talks began. My hope is that the folks here know more about audio than they do about international trade.

Talk is irrelevant for many.   Most will only care if or when they are personally impacted.  It appears to be starting but only time will tell