I haven't side-stepped anything. I was simply stating that the current situation doesn't have anything to do with outsourcing manufacturing to countries with little or no environmental regulations and low wages. This is one of the few fields where that is true. Analog photography equipment, film, paper, and chemicals are still made by the same companies in the same places as they have been for many decades or even longer.
So can we also talk about Canada being a 51st state of the USA?
that's one declarative statement.....but it has nothing to do with the original question of how any newly imposed tariffs will affect the price of supplies not made in the USA? To paraphrase what Sal said.... the world is no longer one big happy free-trading community.
outsourcing manufacturing to countries with little or no environmental regulations and low wages
Photographic supplies (film, paper, chemicals) rely on materials from who-knows-how-many places. There's no guarantee that any particular raw material needed for the manufacture of the finished product comes from any particular location. They get it from the best and probably least expensive source (for the quality). And raw materials are just as subject to tariffs as finished products.
As the makers in other countries might not have new tariffs on their raw materials.
The other countries may impose retaliatory tariffs that may impact some supply cost for those manufacturers.
Stuff comes from everywhere.
Everyone loses in this scenario.
For the time being, it looks like:
GB 10%
EU 20%
JP 24%
I guess it remains to be seen if there are any exempt categories.
As far as the US $800 de minimis rule, I think it is only goods from China (and possibly Canada and Mexico) and certain categories that are disqualified. So, there may still be potential for small orders to not be subject to significant duty.
So Canon, Nikon, Sony goods are going to see significant price increases in the USA.....given that $800 USD won't get you through the door for a digital camera......?
Most of the references I can find for the tariffs are about goods. It is possible a number of raw material categories will be exempt, as if the proposed purpose is to increase US manufacturing, there are some raw materials that would still have to be imported.
The US has imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel.
Next time you are in an urban centre, look at the buildings and see exactly what they're made of. Almost none of that stuff is made in the United States.
Most Kodak films are made in the USA.
Those are not raw materials
Tell me in what way aluminum is not a raw material. Yes, it comes in a sheet or in blocks. But if you can't get any out of the ground, where will it come from?
Most Americans no longer want strip mines or runoff pits next to their suburbs, anymore.
There is extensive processing to manufacture industrial aluminum from bauxite. Again, I am not saying that the tariff approach is a good or bad idea, just that this is what the approach seems to be. For example, maybe they would allow a US company to import bauxite to manufacture the aluminum, with little or no duty on the bauxite.
So, in that case, I'll go back to Kodak to avoid the tarrif. That is the whole idea.
& north of the border...i'll avoid Kodak..... easy enough to do with good alternates....
& north of the border...i'll avoid Kodak.....
But now you are talking about collective punishment.
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