US To Impose Tariffs on Chips From China (reuters.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/1435213/us-to-impose-tariffs-on-chips-from-china
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-impose-tariffs-chips-china-2025-12-23/
> The United States will take action against China's semiconductor industry, [1]setting new tariffs on chips from China from June 23, 2027, that have 0% duties currently, the US Trade Representative said.
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> The announcement comes following a year-long investigation into China's chip imports into the United States, launched by the Biden administration and led by the U.S. Trade Representative. "China's targeting of the semiconductor industry for dominance is unreasonable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce and thus is actionable," the agency said in its release.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-impose-tariffs-chips-china-2025-12-23/
June 2027? (Score:4, Informative)
Was it not the current US government's signature habit to change tariffs randomly on a daily basis, rather than announcing changed 18 months ahead?
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It's to manipulate the midterm elections. Tariffs aren't as popular as they hoped.
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Trump suffers from dementia, so he doesn't even know what he decided on an hour or two earlier. Trump is also easily manipulated, so, just give him lavish praise, and he will do whatever you want.
Capitalism (Score:2)
Uncontrolled capitalism is what we want as long as its our uncontrolled capitalism.
Billionaires don't like capitalism (Score:3)
And Trump is a billionaire. I mean he is now what with all the cryptocurrency corruption.
I know there are still a ton of trump supporters here though. They keep quiet and use their mod points when they get them. And they will vote for Trump in 2028.
There might be a broader strategy here (Score:1)
The US may benefit from legions of Chinese engineers maximising the output of Western designs, paying less attention to optimising output from their indigenous chips. The US would prefer Americans (and the West more broadly) work again to maximise their output on Western designs. This is a battle for path dependency I think.
Are you winning yet? (Score:2)
Consider me stigginit'd.
Just remember (Score:5, Insightful)
Republicans could have a vote today to take away this orange turds tariff powers. It's based on everything now being an "emergency".
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The Dems can vote today also. Why don't they?
Re: Just remember (Score:1)
How many Democrats have already voted for totalitarian laws against homelessness (remember Gavin Newsom's encampment sweeps?) and van lifers already? On the freedom to sleep outside, are Republicans and Democrats united in their karen-ness? Why should I vote Democratic when they've already embraced totalitarian tactics against my preferred lifestyle?
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Because you shouldn't be voting on one issue, regardless of how much it affects your objectively dumb lifestyle.
Re: Just remember (Score:2)
Why won't Democrats abandon immigrants and Epstein victims too in the future just as they've thrown me under the bus?
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That's not Democrats! PEOPLE they represent vote them in and for the most part they still believe in democracy, unlike the Republicans.
If you get outside can talk to real people, you'll find out that most Americans are selfish assholes with some knowing what they are expected to say but quietly act like assholes. Possibly no worse than humanity when given too much success (in the past.)
Authoritariansim has been rising since the 70s as studies show. Even Gen Z is more comfortable with it; and their value of
Re: Just remember (Score:2)
Why should the opposition party lazily ban me when I try to petition them for redress of grievances?
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It would be a waste of time because the cult won't break from dear leader.
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You clearly don't understand the idea of process and procedure. The Speaker of the House can block ANYTHING from being brought to the floor, even if 95% of the members of Congress may want something, Johnson can stop it. It would then require going through a process to get through that block.
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> With both the dollar and US industry collapsing, we should've just remained on the path we were on... right??
Yeah, going to need some citations for those claims.
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I want a 20,000 percent tariff to be imposed on anything relating to golf, since that is the only thing the overgrown oompa loompa seems to care about.
Re: Just remember (Score:3)
All emergency powers laws should come with a footnote: Does not apply if you caused the emergency yourself.
Re: Just remember (Score:2)
Did you miss this part of the actual story you are responding to:
> The announcement comes following a year-long investigation into China's chip imports into the United States, launched by the Biden administration and led by the U.S. Trade Representative.
A year-long investigation started under the Biden Administration ...
Tariffs existed before Trump returned to office, as did trade disputes, I seem to recall tariffs on cheap Chinese solar panels and I suspect that high tariffs have (or will be) used to limit cheap Chinese EVs from flooding our country.
If China is trying to run US chipmakers out of business by subsidizing their chip manufacturers, tariffs are a reasonable response... even if you