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[–] [S] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Are you a hobbyist that relied on cheap knitting supplies or retro video game console parts from AliExpress? Enjoy paying €3 for every single tariff code in your order, now with additional €2 slapped to the whole thing, making this effectively a ~500% tariff rate.

This will surely fix European deindustrialisation. Evidently it’s the people looking for cheap stuff off Ali that decided to move manufacturing to Asia (and definitely not the wealthy business owners) so they need to pay the price.

Middlemen reselling Chinese stuff must be pissing their pants with glee.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Is it even possible to get normal microchips from europe??

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Not really.

    Donald Trump might be a drooling moron but it’s the Americans who now have TSMC and Intel fabs churning out chips on modern process nodes. We have a nice webpage: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-chips-act

    This isn’t the purpose of those tariffs though. In my experience they’re meant to bring back Sega Dreamcast battery holder manufacturing back to the motherland, apparently.

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