Are you buying now because you anticipate higher prices?

[Soandso]

If this is the kind you seek I just saw some versions on eBay USA listing stateside inventory. Below screen shot is one from a USA based seller.

 

[knownothing]

@Soandso thanks for that. I am actually looking for something like this:

 

[D2013]

@knownothing take a look at https://www.digikey.com/

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[knownothing]

Thanks @D2013. I searched the site and got this response:

“Sorry, "R core power supply 5V" did not return any results.”

I am looking for a finished external 5V r core linear power supply at least 2A capable in an aluminum case with an IEC socket and a socket for the DC output cable for around $100 USD with free shipping. Until about a month ago devices like this at this price point were readily available online from China. Today, if they are available at all for sale to the U.S., they come with a several hundred dollar shipping fee added on and a 4-5 week delivery time.

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[antcollinet]

You have lost 50% of your sales.

The sales are already lost. US customers are not going to pay 2 or 3 times what they used to for goods from China.

EG - US Toy sellers are cancelling orders because they don't expect people to buy at the price they would have to sell.

See:

More than 60 percent of toymakers forced to cancel orders due to Trump’s tariffs

‘We have a frozen supply chain that is putting Christmas at risk,’ a Toy Association executive said

www.independent.co.uk

More than 60 percent of toymakers forced to cancel orders as Trump’s tariffs threaten Christmas

And there are other markets. China sold to USA because it was easy - now they are looking to other markets that previously were not as easy - but now are MUCH easier.

Trump's Tariffs: A defiant China looks beyond American buyers

Chinese exporters tell the BBC if the US doesn't want their goods, "other countries have money" to buy them.

www.bbc.co.uk

'We don't care': A defiant China looks beyond Trump's America

 

[antcollinet]

Two and then all the rest.

There are two countries in the world that can approach isolating themselves, or being isolated, from world trade because they have all of the required advantages, not just some advantages, to go it alone. They can also win trade wars. These countries are: Russia and the U.S. While many countries, or groups of countries such a the EU, have some of these advantages, Russia and the U.S. have all of them.

o A large enough population, but not too large.

o A common language throughout the country.

o Natural defensive barriers and/or weak neighbors.

o Enough natural resources.

o A history of being one country.

o A large enough land area.

o Strong militaries and preferably a successful military history.

o There are more advantages, but they become more controversial. This list should give the idea.

USA could win a trade war against any other country. It can't win one against the whole world. It will drive itself into global financial irrelevance.

 

[Willem]

As for scientific exchange, I can tell you that many European scientists are pausing trips to the US. Conferences are already being relocated to Europe. Also, scientists in the US are actively looking into EU jobs (and the EU and France have just set up a fund for that). Dutch scientists are moving data out of the US. All of this will hurt the US economy that depends on scientific excellence.

 

[Sokel]

Ships from PRC to US is 20% down (real market number, from affected one) and the problem is that these same ships don't have a sole destination so this affects them all.
That's one of the side-effects affecting price (and delivery time) as well.

(I wonder how all this back and forth will affect nice shops like Mouser, I guess I'll find out at my next order, for now I'm full, stuff I got last month was same price as usual)

 

[Willem]

As for the audio and video market, my expectation is that the tariffs will badly hurt the US audio/video retail industry, given that virtually all goods are imported from Asia. Who is going to pay an extra 50% or so on a new television, unless the one and only television in your home has just died? Nobody knows what, if any, tariffs there will be in a few months time, so why not wait, and with such discretionary goods many people can wait - I certainly would? The same probably applies to an even greater extent to audio gear. As senior economists all warn, it is the current chaos and uncertainty that is killing the market.

 

[Marc v E]

And no solution in sight.

China is not going to bow to oppression since they remember the one from 1850 tot 1950 vividly. And export to the US is only 15% of total export.

The EU is not inclined to negotiate because it's unlikely there will be an outcome to mutual satisfaction.
And both China and Europe (and the US probably) are in the dark what the US actually wants.

Meanwhile there is a braindrain of scientists from the US to the EU.
It's not hard to see this is going to end bad. Specifically for the US. But in lesser extend for other parts of the world.

 

[MaxwellsEq]

Some people have commented on the US "de minimis" exemption change from $800 to $0. I can see how, for some cheaper electronics this may have a higher impact on prices for US buyers than tariff percentages. Some were of the opinion that exporting countris will have to absorb this.

But perhaps they will export elsewhere. Here's an interesting article from Deutsche Welle : China's Temu & Shein: Europe's new trade threat? The EU de minimis exemption is €150 so up until now, small imported goods over €150 looked cheaper to a US buyer than an EU buyer. But what Deutsche Welle are wondering is if the US does go to $0, then EU buyers may be a more attractive target than it previously was.

There is always a Law of Unexpected Consequences (or what I always called Emergent Behaviour wearing my Systems hat).

 

[Waxx]

The brain drain is already going, and mainly EU institutions are the beneficiaries from that i hear. Canada will probally also have some. Magasines with a big status like Nature even start to talk about it.

Nature: A brain drain would impoverish the United States and diminish world science

But what i heared from some i met at the Univ of Ghent, Belgium last weekend is that Canada is not considered a safe space, as the US president claims Canada as the 51th state and they think he's foolish enough to risk a war for that. That is what they (US scientists) litterally told me and why they dont consider Canada as a futur homebase. They have more confidence in France or Germany for that, even with the Russian aggression in eastern Europe.

This will off course damage the US a lot. These are high income people who leave with their money, and the knowledge that makes America one of the wealtiest countries in the world. And the US was still in the front row of that. But now not anymore i think.

What i also notice is that a lot of African media (official and vloggers) start to piss on the US. A vlogger from Lagos in Nigeria said litterally:

"The US claims to be the top of the civilasation, but can't take care of their own people that lives on the street and is addicted to drugs. You don't see that in Lagos and then we are the 3th world country".

And i hate to say it, but i certainly see his point.

 

[Willem]

Distinguished Yale historian Timothy Snyder and his wife have just accepted positions in Toronto. They obviously made an early decision. By and large it is too late in the academic year for people to switch jobs by September this year, although obviously some will stil manage. Similarly, applying for competitive research grants in Europe will also take more time.

 

[MattHooper]

But what i heared from some i met at the Univ of Ghent, Belgium last weekend is that Canada is not considered a safe space, as the US president claims Canada as the 51th state and they think he's foolish enough to risk a war for that. That is what they (US scientists) litterally told me and why they dont consider Canada as a futur homebase. They have more confidence in France or Germany for that, even with the Russian aggression in eastern Europe.

I have recently heard through a friend some really chilling accounts of what it’s like for some Canadians crossing the US border.

A friend of my friend works for a tech company and he hast to do a lot of crossing back-and-forth between the USA and Canada. Due to the new type of scrutiny at the border, the tech company had originally outfitted employees with burner phones to cross the border. And the employees would not take a laptop across the border, but instead had a separate laptop kept at the offices in the USA. But now, apparently, the USA border guards are hassling people for having burner phones, targeting them for more questioning. And some of the questions are “ What do you think of President Trump?” And even “ if President Trump were in front of you what what would you say to him?” The company has literally had to advise people what to say to these questions. (as you can imagine… you don’t say anything bad about Trump if you want to get through the border). And instead of burner phones now they are taking their original phones, but deleting their actual Social media apps and accounts, and taking other steps to avoid scrutiny of their online behaviour.

It’s just hard to believe we’ve reached this North Korea like behavior we have to deal with now. Everybody I know has decided not to visit the USA anymore. Which is so sad.

 

[PristineSound]

I have recently heard through a friend some really chilling accounts of what it’s like for some Canadians crossing the US border.

A friend of my friend works for a tech company and he hast to do a lot of crossing back-and-forth between the USA and Canada. Due to the new type of scrutiny at the border, the tech company had originally outfitted employees with burner phones to cross the border. And the employees would not take a laptop across the border, but instead had a separate laptop kept at the offices in the USA. But now, apparently, the USA border guards are hassling people for having burner phones, targeting them for more questioning. And some of the questions are “ What do you think of President Trump?” And even “ if President Trump were in front of you what what would you say to him?” The company has literally had to advise people what to say to these questions. (as you can imagine… you don’t say anything bad about Trump if you want to get through the border). And instead of burner phones now they are taking their original phones, but deleting their actual Social media apps and accounts, and taking other steps to avoid scrutiny of their online behaviour.

It’s just hard to believe we’ve reached this North Korea like behavior we have to deal with now..

I really love our Canadian neighbors, they are some of the nicest people. And many of us have family in Canada. This really upsets me.

 

[Azrael]

I am sure that it will take a very long time to "repair" the damage that is currently being done, although there would have to be some recognisable intention to do so. But not even that seems to exist at the moment.

 

[Willem]

Sounds like your friend doesn't work for a very well run company. On of the beast ways of getting questioned by immigration officials (when entering any country), is being in possession of something commonly used by criminals.

EU officials visiting the US are now also issued with burner phones. And for perspective, I have never been asked before to show my phone to immigration officials on any of my multiple visits to the US.

 

[Soandso]

China seller AliExpress, where I had bought some audio components from, yesterday emailed me an "up to 50% off" offer. Their producers, like many other product factories there, are stuck with inventory and trying to unload it (in what we say in the USA) for "cents on the dollar." Yet with the new tariffs their products are still unattractive to me as a buyer.

Similarly yesterday, the Japanese aggregating seller Rakuten also sent me an extensive variety of pricing offers to tempt clients. They too apparently want to restore buying Japanese products at the expense of their bottom line.

As for the stateside value of used audio gear: my thinking is that more people will in the next few months be considering their option to sell off some they don't use. Right now some thinking may be it's suddenly valuable compared to tariffed gear, but as long as this tariff war ensues most people won't be impulse buying. I'm seeing examples of choice used audio gear I'd previously have immediately bought seeming to languish unsold and decided my ideal present attitude is "watchful waiting" for cheaper used audio components listings.

 

[RayDunzl]

A friend of my friend works for a tech company and he hast to do a lot of crossing back-and-forth between the USA and Canada.

I worked for Nortel (in the US), and had several job sites along a fiber route terminating in Detroit.

Without thinking about it too much, crossed over into Canada one evening.

With maybe $200,000 of various Optical Line Cards and Dispersion Reversers and Raman Amplifiers in the trunk.

The Customs guys were real nice, but it still took a while to talk my way out of that mistake.

 

[Timcognito]

One of the most disturbing things in society today (imo), is far to many people live in their own little echo chambers are are completely oblivious to what goes on outside of it.

Well I watch DW News (Deutsche Welle) NHK News (Nippon, Hong Kong) on PBS and I guess that may go away, but I guess I'll switch to that other "News" station with no reporters on the ground, interviews virtually no opposing commenters and that spews political propaganda 24/7.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/deutsche-welle-media-bias

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news