Summary

Best Buy warned that Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports from China, Mexico, and Canada could raise prices on consumer electronics, as 60% of Best Buy’s inventory comes from China.

Trump plans to impose a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and a 60% tariff on Chinese goods to boost domestic manufacturing.

Retailers like Best Buy and industry groups like the Consumer Technology Association are preparing for supply chain disruptions by importing goods early or sourcing alternatives to avoid higher consumer prices.

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    Everything he’s planning is going to have negative effects on the economy…

    Deport every? No one to work the jobs most refuse to do… Means food, housing, and other shortages which makes prices go up.

    Tariffs? Make everything cost more and force companies to charge consumers.

    Reduce education standards? Keep everyone dumb so they vote for us!!!

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      2 months ago

      Tariffs can also backfire like with China and their retaliatory tariffs . Some US companies rely on exports for a large part of their business.

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        It happened the last time Trump tried it. China slapped a tariff on an ag product, soy (iirc), China stopped buying, the government bailed out the farmers. Everyone lost except China.

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      Deport every? No one to work the jobs most refuse to do… Means food, housing, and other shortages which makes prices go up.

      This one kind of makes me a bit sad about the two prevailing sentiments:

      • Heartless separation of families and forcing immigrants back into dangerous situations, frankly in the name of pursuing an ethnic purity/superiority.

      • Maintain an illegal labor class of folks constantly under threat of deportation so they have fewer rights and higher fear to exercise the rights they do have, so they can be cheap and abused labor.

      The “grant these people legal standing” seems to never be a persistent stance. Closest we got was DACA, and even that was pretty limited. No one dares threaten giving the cheap labor any leverage.