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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whenever the tariffs come down.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Wonder if a consumer can get around the tariff. If the price is too high, it becomes more economical to pay a bit extra for a roundabout way of getting it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Gray market imports into the US from China have already been big business, especially among counterfeiters and drop-shippers. Idk about getting a full-sized SUV over the border. But designer bags, electronics, and the like have been coming over for at least a decade.

    Idk how much retail buyers save, though. Much like with the drug trade and human trafficking, there's inevitably an enormous mark-up for this kind of smuggling. And because it is functionally unregulated, you get a ton of refurbished, low-grade, and outright fraudulent sales. Smuggling tends to accrue money to the smugglers and the various officials you need to bribe to move the merchandise. You rarely see retail level discounts, unless the market is so glutted with knock-offs.

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Canadian here ...what's a tariff?

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  • [–] 8 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    Canada–China trade war

    Might be worth doing a little research. Canada's never been shy about using them.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago*

    RAM has not come from China, and China isn't exporting much of it yet. Unless Canada and the EU and Japan and everyone else is also handing out tariffs on Taiwan, Korea, etc like the US is, their point was the price of RAM doesn't have anything to do with tariffs.

    The price of RAM is high globally because the AI companies have bought future-RAM with money the RAM producing companies gave them to build data centers that don't exist yet.

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