grrrmo comments on Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs

[–] grrrmo@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I would expect a small company like them to be the most vulnerable to tariffs. This might cause them to go out of business.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They could start selling their inventory to countries they don't sell to yet. Although I'm assuming they're just pausing under the assumption that the tariffs are temporary.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I wonder how it works though. Do they get finished laptops off a ship from China, or do they do final assembly in the US?

If they do anything in the US, then they'll have to pay import tariffs to get the things they're using, and then have to make up that tariff when selling it to other countries. I assume that the only way to avoid tariffs is to avoid any part of their products ever entering the US. But, how easy is it to change their business so despite being a US-based business their products avoid the US entirely?

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[–] Ethank@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

As far as I know, all of the assembly and testing is done in Taiwan, and they are shipped directly from the factory there. They have a European warehouse for some parts to reduce shipping times, I assume they have a similar warehouse in the us as well.

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