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Amazon will take care of selling them at a discount.
It will even sell them in installments and without interest.
If Apple does that I will just buy something else. I don’t care that much about smartphones and tablets.
I like their M4 Mac’s but if they get even more expensive it will be something else as well. AMD with Linux. Not going to buy anything by intel or Microsoft.
But trump should be gone by the time I’m in the market for new Mac mini (around the M7-8 maybe ?).
I will focus my audio purchases on EU/UK/Japanese brands made wherever as long as they use their own factories in china or Malaysia.
US brands won’t see a cent anymore.
Hope everything goes back to normal, but in the EU we are already paying a big premium for US audio gear (4000 usd Macintosh streamer is close to 7000 usd)
I like their M4 Mac’s but if they get even more expensive it will be something else as well. AMD with Linux. Not going to buy anything by intel or Microsoft.
But trump should be gone by the time I’m in the market for new Mac mini (around the M7-8 maybe ?).
I will focus my audio purchases on EU/UK/Japanese brands made wherever as long as they use their own factories in china or Malaysia.
US brands won’t see a cent anymore.
Hope everything goes back to normal, but in the EU we are already paying a big premium for US audio gear (4000 usd Macintosh streamer is close to 7000 usd)
I’m not sure about that. Yesterday, I saw that Sony will raise the price of PlayStation 5 in Europe by 25% because of the tariffs in the U.S. I think that is a bullshit move and I will boycott every company that does the same. I will not take part of some sort of “solidarity” increase in prices, I’m European and we have not raised any tariffs yet.
Definitely. There is a alternative for most things. Just pass on all the bullshit brands doing these kind of things.
And when it comes to audio things, you usually buy something once and are using it for years.
Just need to be flexible.. prices for bourbon are up? Drink a scotch/Irish or Canadian whisky.
they can only rise prices so much. Sony had high prices for the ps3.. and they failed with that . If nobody is able to afford a ps6 or 100 euro games that will be their problem ultimately.
I don’t really care if my new amplifier is from Yamaha or Cambridge or my dac comes from the UK or Germany.
And for all the class D stuff there are people in the EU as well.
And plenty of great stuff on the used market.
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That may not be the case, considering what EU has been doing with Chinese electric cars.
There is an ongoing negotiation to discuss it.
The duties on electric cars produced in China (so not only on Chinese brands, but also on Tesla) were decided because of a competition issue: the EU does not allow state aid to individual companies (which is what China has done massively).
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I know; and by that logic, tariffs could apply to electronics of many kinds.
And that policy is hypocritical to the marrrow, because of course, European automobile manufacturers do not get aid from public funds, right?
In electronics that could certainly apply to Huawei, who have had massive investment - mostly from the state - especially since they were sanctioned by the USA a few years ago. Their chip making facilities are something to take seriously these days.
I doubt that small audio companies get aid though.
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I doubt it too, same for speaker manufacturing facilities. Those are not "high tech" sectors and the equivalent facilities in Europe doing the same are small and far between. But it´s the EU, you never know...
Besides Electronics i bought 24 kg of coffebeans 3 months ago not because of tarrifs but anticipating an extreem price hike because of bad crops. Around 100% rise or more. They air tight sealed expiration date 2.5 years. 24 kg 2 persons household thats about 1 year of coffee. No i'm not a high-end coffee purist 
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No, probably wrong. But there are countries in Europe that are not in the European Union and hence have different legal codes and tariff rules. And there are policies that do to some extent support the auto industries but which do not favour a particular country or manufacturer or have any relevance to tariffs although some policies might not be so easy to defend.
So a gross generalisation of an answer to your question isn't really possible. If we must discuss politics rather than audio here - perhaps you could give just one or perhaps two specific examples of current European aid to auto industries that you are interested in and then we might discuss those examples?
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Well, yes. At least as far as the point was probably intended but simple blanket replies and opinions are not likely to be accurate.
Directly subsiding European automobile manufacturing is perhaps forbidden. At least in the European Union. But not in all European countries.
And indirectly aiding European automobile manufacturers is not always for bidden e.g. we pay for roads out of public funds yet railways have to pay for their own track. And for example here in the UK we do assist European car manufacturers by allowing them to be imported at a preferential rate because of trade agreements, although the rest of the world still only pay a generic 10|% import tax. And that isn't just for 'foreign' cars - if I buy a British made car in for instance America and then re-import it to the UK I have to pay my 10% import duty - so it is a tax on imports not a tax on foreign manufactured cars specifically.
So to anwer the original comment correctly , we do need to know specifically which instance of "European aid to auto industries" is being referred to because the answer is likely to be different from one case to another.
That said, in general, I don't believe the UK, or most other European countries, operate unusually restrictive import tariffs. Not yet anyway.
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Teslas have half the EV market and they have the goal of manufacturing as close as possible to the intended market. Germany, for example.
Last I read, China also charges 25% tariffs on cars that are imported and the only way to manufacture there is to partner with a Chinese company and agree to share your technology with them.
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Nope, I'm not buying anything right now. In fact, I heard in the news that it was a possibility that for other countries outside of the US that prices of some Chinese items might decrease due to them having to dump their stock due to lack of sales in the USA due to the import tariffs - oversupply driving down prices. But, to be honest, I don't think I need or want any more audio gear. I think a few of my headphones are pretty much end game with EQ, and my speaker & sub setup is also fine. For people who live outside of the USA then the best time to buy audio gear may well be in the near'ish future when China have an oversupply due to them not really being able to access the US market.
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